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A built Vario MD 900 kit (by Vario)
The real thing in UK Air Support Colours
September 29, 2009
Well, to no great surprise, the day has again dawned dull
and windy, so it's off back into the hanger for me to continue work
on the MD900.
My task to start on today is to cut away the remaining
material around all the apertures and vents and shape them up nice
and neatly ready to accept the panels.
I have also cut and shaped the starboard pilots door and
the starboard side door (passenger / goods door), including filing
them down on the back where they are carbon fibre coated to make
them fit into the door apertures nice and neatly.
I cut the glass for the starboard pilots door to check it
out, and to see if it would effect the fit of the door. IT
DOES, as the glazing material HAS to go right to the front edge, so
it is an additional thickness that I will have to try and thin down
somehow if the doors are to fit nice and flush.
Completing the aperture cleanup will take about four days
all told, as there are a lot of them, what with all the cooling
vents and the access hatches.
The owner has asked me to change the paint scheme slightly
as he does not want the yellow top paint to come down in a curve to
the side doors, which is what the paint on OSCAR99 does. Some
other UK Air Support helicopters do not have this, but rather the
yellow is kept to a straight line joint with the bottom paint at the
level of the straight bottom edge of the main engine cowlings. (You
can see this in the top right image of a UK Air Support police
MD900)
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Our
protoype
OSCAR99 (G-HPOL)
looks like this : |
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Here are a few pictures of the new starboard apertures and
with the doors taped on.
Looks quite good really with both the doors fitted in nice and
flush...
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