Senior Pattern Association
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RC Building YouTube Videos
by Frank Cox
Welcome to my Shop - Let's Build Airplanes
The proper way to use a Tack Rag
Getting a Carbon Fiber look on your airplane
Easy Wing Fillets
Part 1
Part 2
Tipo Build
Part 1 - The Beginning
Part 2 - Fuselage construction, firewall, retracts and fuselage doublers
Part 3 - Fuselage construction, engine installation and centering the nose ring
Part 4 - Building the horizontal stab
Part 5 - Installing retract blocks
Part 6 - Aileron servos
Part 7 - Sheeting the horizontal stab cores
Part 8 - Leading and trailing edges of the foam stab cores
Part 9 - Installing ailerons with CA Hinges
Part 10 - Cutting wheel wells and servo ports in foam core wings
Part 11 - Installing retracts blocks and preparing wing for sheeting
Part 12 - Wing prep for skinning and vacuum bagging
Part 13 - Sheeting the wing cores
Part 14 - Vacuum bagging wings
Part 15 - Trimming excess balsa from wing cores and prepping for leading and trailing edges
Part 15A - Wing tip blocks and trailing edges
Cutting ailerons from the sheeted wing cores
Part 16 - Wing Tips
Part 16B - Glassing the fuselage
Part 17 - Mating the wing to the fuselage
Part 18 - Glassing the wing center section
Installing the horizontal stab and fillets