P-51 Mustang Diary, page 5
Friday, 15th April, 2011
During the gloom of a seemingly endless winter I turned to a task I’d been putting off for many months… the completion of the instrument...
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Wednesday, 24th November, 2010
The start of winter marks the completion of the P-51’s main-planes. I spent the last few days laboriously polishing the control surfaces stored away since...
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Friday, 27th August, 2010
It’s a curious happenstance that I embark on these jottings just as I reach a major landmark in life. In five days’ time I retire...
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Wednesday, 18th November, 2009
I began work on my 1/5 scale P-51D in March 2005, and it has occupied the greater part of my leisure time since. For that...
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Archive
- Retrospective: The flaps
- Retrospective: The elevators
- Retrospective: Rudder framework
- Retrospective: Outer doors
- Retrospective: Main doors
- Retrospective: Wheelbay fittings
- Retrospective: Wheelbay structure
- Retrospective: Wheelbay basics
- Retrospective: More switch panels
- Retrospective: Switch panel detail
- Retrospective: Handles and levers
- Retrospective: Control quadrant
- Retrospective: Cockpit floor
- Departure Day
- Retrospective: Rudder pedals
- Retrospective: Fuselage frames
- Retrospective: Tail wheel strut
- Retrospective: Main landing gear
- Retrospective: The chin scoop
- An end in sight
- The Mustang's tyres
- Canopy framework
- The vac-formed canopy
- VHF and battery packs
- Hamilton Standard airscrew
- The pilot's seat
- Control column assembly
- Retrospective: Auxiliary fuel tank
- Machining the wheels
- Some external stencils
- Stars and bars
- Warpaint - the first coats
- Cockpit update
- Spinning the spinner
- Rudder fabric
- Assembling the fin and tailplane
- Grappling with gremlins
- A pause to look back
- Wing root fairings
- Wings and fuselage united
- Instrument panel complete
- Gun port blisters
- A tipping point
- Welcome to my P-51 diary
