Flat pack GT40 chassis kit

[Fury1630]

RobGT81 said:

I serviced Harriers for a living.

You're taking the piss when you say you used jigs, right?

I built & later designed them for a living, jigs? Tight tolerances? No. Certain critical items were jigged & everything else was built to suit. Sounds like pretty much what the GT Forte kit does.

[Darranu]

RobGT81 said:

Darranu said:

You don't think a jig's necessary?

Just as background, I served my time on aircraft, Harriers & Hawks as a production fitter.
All the parts were manufactured to incredibly fine tolerances and as you'd expect all fitted together reasonably well.

I serviced Harriers for a living.

You're taking the piss when you say you used jigs, right?

Haha, I know exactly where your coming from there.
Harriers and to a lesser degree Hawks are slightly "Hand Built"

I was only talking to a friend the other day who's now on the JSF and we were saying that the days of hand built aircraft are gone.
Shame really, composites are the future but as we stop manufacturing conventional, aluminium aircraft we're going lose the individual skill's required to build them.

[Fastpedeller]

Darranu said:

composites are the future but as we stop manufacturing conventional, aluminium aircraft we're going lose the individual skill's required to build them.

So are we going back to wooden aircraft?

[Darranu]

Balsa wood, like the models when I was a kid.....

[RobGT81]

Darranu said:

Haha, I know exactly where your coming from there.
Harriers and to a lesser degree Hawks are slightly "Hand Built"

In fairness they were bloody solid, good for another 20 years if people didn't make stupid decisions.