Hello,
It is some quite time that I did not submit any article so I have one now.
I am working for a Honeywell Aerospace and I found this unique test bed on our web.
So I started investigation. Friend of mine pointed me to Flight test team and our cooperation started.
Great experience and I appreciate their kindness and patience with my questions.
I did preparation and searched for a good model to base my project on. Finally I found that Minicraft Boeing 757 will fit.
For the 3rd engine I used TFE 731 from Dassault Falcon model.
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So what we need. Model, Evergreen white plate and many pictures and details.
I started with pylon. This is scratch build and fit to fuselage as I expect.
Once this was done I continued with other details. I decide for resin Rolls Royce RB-211 from BraZ model.
Not bad only some more panel lines which needed to be filled in. Other assembly went well.
A lot of filling around cockpit and fuselage. Once all assembled I sprayed Surfacer 1200 for surface check.
When all was OK I started to paint all surfaces with white and dark grey walkways on wings.
At first time I tried to airbrush red/grey stripes on fuselage but it was bad mistake.
I removed all colors and started from the beginning.
Then I spent some time with Corel Draw.
I created spare decals and printed them on white decal paper. This allowed me to go to more details.
When all was finished I started final assembly. As a last detail, I used 0,3mm wire to create Pitot probes and I did not forget the orange trailing cone on vertical stabilizer.
Model is displayed in Prague Honeywell office.
Ahoj
Jaroslav Kral
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