"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote in
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Do you want to fly or do you want to build?

Both, actually. But I'm so new to flying I'm still figuring out what
kind of flying I'm most interested in doing.

I like to build things.

I'm intimidated by tube and fabric, which, though it is of the
earliest aircraft technology, sounds really time consuming in the
extreme. Still I can imagine that it's very rewarding.

Welding up the truss is the easy part. Making all the little
fittings, hinges. control parts, EVERYTHING in front of the firewall,
making the canopy parts, blah blah blah is what takes the time.

Easier now with water and laser cutting. all yuo have to do is clean them
up and bend them then. But making them by hand? Yipes!

I wasn't kidding when I said that when you think you are 90% done, 50%
of the work is left to do...


If anything, you were being conservative!


Bertie