Starting the Fuselage

The fuselage starts with the sides which are made of 3/16" balsa. As the sides are longer than 36" an extra length has to be spliced on the front. The balsa I bought wasn't quite wide enough to cover the depth of the front end of the fuselage so I had to splice an extra section on to increase the width.
The top of the fuselage has 3/8" x 1/8" spruce longerons and the bottom has 3/8" triangular section balsa longerons. Being a traditional build there is a lot of tapering of spruce and balsa to be done before it is all glued together.




The sides and the longerons ready to be glued.







Gluing it all together. The spruce is pinned and weighted.