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The Canadian HM-8 Replica
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- 2004 February 04
The fuselage assembly is glued and the look is perfect. The way André Létourneau harmonized and blended the plywood sheets is very artistic and will allow us to varnish the hull like on several HM-8 we saw in our museum tours.
Paul Fournier came with the hardware he had made during the week We adjust the control bar on the fuselage. Everything fits OK
February 11
André made a great job during the week. All turtledeck bulkheads are cut and positioned. The alignment with water level and plumb line is perfect. The sternpost is completed with the vertical rudder main spar. All parts are ready to assemble for the vertical and horizontal rudder. The 3 of us agreed to replace the piano wire of the rudder trailing edge with curved sheets of plywood. The look after fabric covering being the same as the original. Paul Fournier adjusts the sternpost bracket on the sternpost.
- 2004 February 18
Two important steps:
-The empennage, (vertical and horizontal) is glued.
-The cabane streamlined vertical members are adjusted on the fuselage frame, ready to be fixed to the horizontal member.
A compression spring is purchased in Montreal for the tail skid (die-cut spring).
- 2004 February 24
A real progress during the week:
-The turtledeck bulkheads are completed and glued in place.
-The empennage (horizontal and vertical) is adjusted in place. Hardware completed and positioned.
-The firewall is glued.
-The control floor bar is in place.
-The cabane horizontal bar is attached to the vertical members.
-All wing ribs are varnished.
We had visit and help from a new pouducielist, future HM-380 builder Claude Martin and skilled assistance of Jean-Pierre Gagnon.
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