Heinkel He-280 1/33 Marek design

[MacSongLi]

Nice job Isaac. You did do a great job on the petals. The fuselage is coming along very nicely.


Gary

[Isaac]

Aft section is similar to the front with the addition of a horizontal fin fairing.



ready to join halves



joined



Isaac

[Isaac]

The aircraft has a horizontal fin with the twin vertical fins at the end.


Here is the joint location on the aft fuselage.



and here is the fuselage so far



Isaac

[Olo]

Fuselage looks great ...you are F1 in model builds ..

[smithdr]

Man...for someone who hates petals, it looks like you nailed it!


Nice job so far, Isaac.

Dan

[MacSongLi]

The fuselage turned out perfect, Isaac.

Gary

[Isaac]

Thank you guys for following this build.

I needed something that follows the theme of experimental jets and this was one of them.


The construction so far is simple.



Isaac

[Isaac]

Here is the horizontal tail fin. My only addition is the wood center spar for better support.


parts





and installed

The wood spar will be trimmed to size later


Note : do not glue the vertical end fins at this point because they are flimsy and will fall off during handling. Those will be added later at the end.



Isaac

[Isaac]

the first thing needed is to build the frames. Those are supported by metal rods thru the fuselage.




I like this type of structure because it is simple and light.



Here is the assembled wing frame ( including the landing gear bay ).



The wing skins are next. Notice that the wing comes in inner and outer section due to the dihedral on the outer wing panel.




here is the wing



dry fitting the frame to the metal rods



dry fit the wing




now both wing frames are on



glue frames in place using CA ( super glue ).




Isaac

[Isaac]

The wing skins are slipped on and glued in place






add the root fillet



Technical comment on the actual aircraft design: If this was intended to be a fighter plane, then the wing is way too large for any meaningful speed or maneuverability. This prototype would have needed major modifications to be an effective fighter plane ( and much bigger jet engines. But that's later.



Isaac