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Building a Slingsby Skylark 4
Fred:
Leave this bottle alone Ron ! :P :D
Yeah, I think if you design something to be made a SK from, you need to draw in CAO/DAO from the start...
Redraw a plan from a scan to make them compatible for cutting, is a big waste of time, might be better and less time consumming to restart from scratch and using computer tools...
Peter:
That's a shame Ron that there are all those issues with the short kit and the plan. I would have thought if one was going to market a short kit you would build or have someone else build a prototype first and iron out these sort of problems. I actually have the Skylark plan too! I was idly thinking of whether it would make a next project, but I decided on a Slingsby Gull 1 instead - but mustn't get ahead of myself. I still have some work to do on the Pilatus B4 although it is coming together now.
Ron:
Yeah it's the combination that's the problem really.
If I'd just used the plan alone there would have been a few questions, but the designer is very helpful.
And yes, even my wife's reaction was "It makes you wonder if anyone has actually built that kit before".
But it seems that the final plan and the final kit never come together for a check by anyone.
I've got another plan for a Skylark 1 - 107" span, and although that is a simpler construction there is more info on it.
Maybe I should have started with that :?
We will overcome :!:
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