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Old 01-08-2022, 08:58 AM
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The next build is the SZD-22 Mucha Standard. It was designed in 1958 as a competition sailplane. The kit, like most of the GPM glider models, has 2 pages of colored sheets, one page of black and white parts, and one page of instruction diagrams. This model has no internal skeleton, just internal bulkheads. I started on the big pieces first, saving the many fiddly bits for last. The wing has an internal box structure, with slots for the wing spars. The wings went together better than the Komar, mostly because it has a fullspan straight leading edge. I'm going to have the speedbrakes deployed, so cut them out before assembling the wing. The fuselage goes together easily. The bulkheads ended up being a little too small, cut them out just outside the printed line, then trim to size. The cockpit has much more detail than the Komar, including seatbelts and secondary controls. The canopy doesn't fit too well, but I'm going to use it to make a vacuum formed canopy later.
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