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Culp Special build log

Images:

fuselage frame - upside down

fuselage frame - upside down

fuselage frame

fuselage frame

fuselage frame - with longerons

fuselage frame - upside down, with longerons

fuselage frame shaping up

fuselage frame

sheeted fuselage frame

sheeted fuselage frame

stabilizer frames

vertical stabilizer and rudder

vertical stabilizer and rudder

fiddling with stabilizers

Mr. Bear in cockpit

horizontal stab + elevators

horizontal stab + elevators

fuselage shaping up

fuselage shaping up

tail

tail

fuselage and stabilizers covered

fuselage and stabilizers covered

lower wing

lower wing sheeted

wing fits precisely

wing fits precisely

elevator and rudder servos

upper wing ribs

upper wing - precise build

upper wing

wheelpants plug roughly shaped

Culp's Special with one seat - Image courtesy of author, herr Franz Lackner

Culp's Special - Zalaegerszeg airshow 2007 may (LHZA)

wingtip roulded

cowling plug after spray filler

cowling plug after some puttying

wheelpants plug after some puttying

wheelpants plug after some puttying

details of the original cowling

cowling plug painted (some orange peel)

wheelpants plug painted

cowling plug polished

wheelpants plug and parting board

Designed using 3D studio

wheelpants mold plug - repainted, polished with the parting board just cut

wheelpants plug and parting board sealed

wheelpants - ready for tooling

tooling resin applied

sand acts as a coupling layer

half-finished molds - fiberglass layers and some sand added

left side mold is finished

finished wheelpant molds

Another Culp Special - built by Lennart Andersson (Sweden)

Power panel (kind of)