{"id":5544,"date":"2023-05-17T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5544"},"modified":"2023-05-30T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T18:09:20","slug":"big-stik-short-kit","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?product=big-stik-short-kit","title":{"rendered":"Big Stik Short Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>100 inch version of the Kraft Das Ugly Stik, originally published in Model Builder magazine. \u00a0Bud Nosen Models used to sell a kit and had their own version of the giant Ugly Stik (which is available on Outerzone), but this is the Model Builder version, which is more clear and better drawn. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Big_Stik_MB_100.pdf\">Click here to download it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very big plane, and it doesn\u2019t make sense for me to send you a bunch of large balsa wood cut into rectangles, triangles, and other straight lines. \u00a0So you build the wing tips. \u00a0I\u2019ll send you the plywood fuselage doubler, and you use it as a template to build the fuselage. \u00a0I suspect that most guys wouldn\u2019t want the hatch, because the hole in F2 is big enough for a fuel tank and your hand, so I\u2019ll leave that up to you. \u00a0I will send you the wing bolt blocks, bulkheads, tail bolt blocks, vertical stabilizer outline, elevator, ailerons, landing gear plate, and wing ribs. \u00a0All 3\/8\u2033 balsa parts are cut from two layers of 3\/16 to be laminated by you.\u00a0 The 1\/2\u2033 elevator is cut from two layers of 1\/4.\u00a0 The elevator as shown on the plan is 37 inches long, which is a funny trick for a model plane designer to play on a builder.\u00a0 It would really bother me to burn a 48 inch sheet for a 37 inch part, so your elevator will have an inch or so missing from one end.\u00a0 Turn the two layers opposite each other and fill in the missing bit on each end with scraps.<\/p>\n<p>Please choose dihedral or no dihedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 inch version of the Kraft Das Ugly Stik, originally published in Model Builder magazine. \u00a0Bud Nosen Models used to sell a kit and had their own version of the giant Ugly Stik (which is available on Outerzone), but this &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?product=big-stik-short-kit\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":955,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[42],"product_tag":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/5544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}