The Lynx ProjectLincoln-Mercury’s Lost Dream Car


BUILDING THE DC-8 PLANE

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30 March 2014:

Time to prepare the door. I began with manufacturing the hinge arms from brass sheet and soldered them to the door panel. The door will not be operable, and will easily be mountable and dismountable by the aid of slides, during building process.

01 April 2014:
I manufactured the slides from brass sheets. I made a set of counterparts and soldered them together. The slide housing will be installed within the fuselage. At the rightmost photo is a test fitting of the door and its housing. 

02 April 2014:
I fixed the slide housing inside the fuselage and made a test-fit.

30 May 2014:
Now more steps with the door. I had prepared the thickness frame from styrene slabs before. I manufactured the inner door panel from an old credit card and used milliput for the conical window frame.

31 May 2014:
I made a riveted-looking strip from aluminum duct tape and fixed it along the outer sheet. I also made the hiding covers for the hinge arms from styrene and the window bezel from flattened copper wire.

02 June 2014:
I painted the door, printed the turning arrow as a decal and applied it on the inside of the door. Then I fixed the lever handle I had prepared before.

05 June 2014:
I drew the cockpit bulkhead template on the computer, printed on sticky paper and cut the bulkhead from plywood. I scribed the door edges.

06 June 2014:
I covered the bulkhead with white PVC folio. I made aluminum painted door frames and installed a door handle made from solder wire.


07 June 2014:
Mounting the safety net proved to be difficult. I could not succeed in trying to pass the leading edges through the circumferential rollers. So I thought of wire assistance. I passed very thin aluminum wires through the ribbon ends.

08 June 2014:
I passed the net edges through the rollers and fixed them with CA glue. Then I cut off the excess parts. This process took a full day.

10 June 2014:
I installed the bulkhead inside the fuselage.

I temporarily installed the cabin door and watched how it looked like...

12 June 2014:
I routed the LED wiring to the right wing section to form the electrical inlet by a female jack.


17 June 2014:

A trial for the fuselage covering. I partly formed a styrene sheet by heating over a metal cylinder. Did not take the actual curvature, but close to it.

I used 3M's VHB double-sided sticky tape for fixing the fuselage covering.


I fixed the styrene sheet on the sticky tapes.

23 June 2014:
However, the stringer wires proved to be too thin for the tape to stick, and the styrene lifted off at some points. So I thought of adding some surface for the tape to stick. I took styrene H-section and covered one side's inside with the tape. This formed a U-groove in which the stringer wires will rest.The sticky tape will be stuck on one of the sides of the H-section. 

  I fixed the prepared parts on each section of the stringer.

28 July 2014:
Went on to manufacturing the cargo door elements, the first one being the door latches. I made a master from styrene and duplicated 7 items from marble cement by making a mold.

29 July 2014:
I began glueing the outer skin of the cargo door with 2-part epoxy glue.

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