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Building the Cessna 310Q
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 Installation of lower motor mount on nacelle. |
 Another view of installation of lower motor mount. |
 Installing bulkhead N-6 and upper motor mount. |
 Another view of alignment and installation front bulkhead and motor mount. |
 Installing sides of nacelles. |
 Another view of nacelle side installation. |
 Nacelles ready for planking. |
 Nacelle top planking being installed. |
 Preparing mating surfaces for the side angle planking of nacelles. |
 Sides being placed and secured with tape until dry. |
 Stabilizer being constructed. |
 Stabilizer with one side planked. |
 Stabilizer top sheeting installed and drying with both nacelles drying. |
 Adding side planking to left nacelle/right is completed. |
 Installing lower planking on nacelles. |
 Cutting out wing jigs (not included in kit) |
 Wing jigs cut out and completed. |
 Installing center rib sections for wing. |
 Installing outboard ribs for wing. |
 Closeup view of holes for aileron servo wiring cutouts (before installation) |
 Top view of wing. |
 Top sheeting (one piece) and contact points with ribs drawn on sheeting for glue application to ribs and sheeting. |
 Top sheeting applied and weighted with sandbags. |
 Different view of same. |
 Installing main gear block to wing. |
 Closeup view of gear block (notice wing jig underneath) |
 Applying glue to wing sheeting. |
 Routing of throttle cable through wing ribs. |
 Installing bottom spars (using wing jigs underneath). |
 Preparation for installation of wing dihedral braces. |
 Installation of wing dihedral braces (clamps are holding) |
 Wing clamps different view. |
 View of trailing edge sheeting. |
 View of temporary placement of nacelles and wing tanks. |
 Checking engine cowling clearance |
 Completion of engine cowling mounting arms. |
 Sideview of engine mounting (engine is OS52 4 stroke) |
 Topview of engine mounting. |
 Frontview of engine mounting. |
 Aileron cutout and installation of trailing edge for hinges. |
 Cutting off excess leading edge of aileron for hinge strip installation. |
 Hinge strip installed. |
 Fuselage nose construction begins. |
 Another view of fuselage nose. |
 Preparing fuselage sides hardwood doublers for mounting to bulkhead sides with epoxy. |
 Placing epoxy on fuselage sides for mating of the hardwood doublers which go on first before the fuselage sides. |
 Fuselage doublers mounted. |
 Another view of doublers mounted to fuselage. |
 Fuselage sides being mounted. |
 Another view of fuselage sides. |
 Top rear deck planking completed up to rear window. |
 Nose gear installation--use of 6/32 blind nuts advised here. |
 Top passenger area planking started. |
 Rear window cutout completed. |
 Bottom nose planking completed --nose gear cutout will be next. |
 Wing hold down blocks installed--did not use ones that came with kit--made new ones out of 1/4 inch ply and made them larger. |
 Cessna temporarily put together. |
 Stab Joiners |
 Alignment of vertical stab. |
 Control System: JR10X----7 servos---powered by 2 OS 52 4 stroke engines--painted with Sherwin Williams Ultra 7000 clear coat/base coat paint. |