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Vulture 1 sprouts wings and a tail

Lots of lovely construction snaps for your viewing pleasure

Reaching once again for the brandy bottle, we braced ourselves for fixing the wings to the fuselage. Here's the latter prepared for the big moment:

The central fuselage prepared for mounting the wings

The wing sits like this, supported by a styrofoam block to ensure the correct dihedral:

One wing offered up to the fuselage

...and here it is glued in, with the spars indicated:

The first wing glued in, with the spars indicated

We slapped in some extra uprights (indicated) under each spar to absorb the downward force created by the wings in flight:

Extra vertical straw braces under each spar

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