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A super fast building wood fuselage

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Tiger Tim

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As the title suggests, this method of construction must go together blindingly fast:
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It’s an Irwin Meteorplane and the whole fuselage is nothing more than six or seven bulkheads cut out of 3/4” marine ply with four ash longerons. The corner brackets are all just rectangular steel straps with a couple holes drilled in for hardware and the cable bracing holds the works together without glue. Replace those cables and turnbuckles with bicycle spokes and I bet you could come up with a kit that builds so fast and easy it would make Ikea blush.
 
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