
It's been a long road, but we finally have some decent moulded wings for you LT owners. These are the same wings that will come with the new, all-moulded JART-LX kits.
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middle, then cut out a separate a plan profile using 3 mm ply, split it lengthwise and glued it onto each outside of the "silhouttes", thus forming the backbone which can be splitted down the middle. Then filled the sides in with dense polystyrene thermal insulating foam (ceilings) and shaped it, PVA and layer it with glass cloth, building layers and sanding it down
to a smooth finish (the acetate sands slower than the wood/glass, thus make a neat joint), followed by a couple of coats of K2 paint and 400 grit sand paper. Then split it down the middle and glue it with PVA filler glue to white chipboard. I then sprayed waterbase mould release liquid on the mould, followed by gelcoat, resin and cloth. Then building up layers with glasscloth for support, ending with heavy duty "glassfibre mesh". Albeit very "Heath Robinson", I actually found it easy
Daron's yellow and black JartAfter getting the plane trimmed out, Daron was having such fun that I decided to join him and launched my more sedate Salto...... It has to be sods law, Five minutes later we had a head on in mid air... What are the chances?
WELL WE ARE BACK IN THE WORKSHOP!

Daron : the elected test pilot
Vic's pulling his nose at the thought of a prop!
At this stage the going has not been to good with two flights and two crashes. The first was Vic's balsa prototype in a 100km/h wind and Daron's disoriontation....
Third time lucky!
Plug number 2

Epoxy coating gone wrong
Gel coat and epoxy coating in a marriage gone wrong
Not quite the best spray booth.

The plug still stuck in the mould, but salvaged


Layup complete and curing

After the blue foam plug is nicely sanded to shape and layed up ,with in this case 3 x 163 gr cloth layers, I sand it smooth with 180grit paper, especially glass cloth join lines.