Table Of Contents - Model Airways CURTISS JN-4D JENNY Instruction Manual

Technical Characteristics ............................................Cover
History........................................................................................2
Introduction and Credits......................................................4
Before You Begin ....................................................................5
Necessary Construction Tools ............................................5
Working with the Plans and Parts.......................................5
1. The Plans ...............................................................................5
2. Parts.......................................................................................5
3. Kit Lumber .............................................................................6
4. Britannia Metal Parts..............................................................6
5. Photo-Etched Parts................................................................6
6. Rigging Cord ........................................................................6
7. Setting Up the Plans ..............................................................6
8. Part Identification and Readiness .........................................6
9. Bending Wood Strips .............................................................6
Painting and Staining the Model.......................................6
Stage 1: Building the Wings ................................................7
1. Preparing the Wing Ribs ........................................................7
2. Setting Up the Wing Spars ....................................................7
3. Installing the Wing Ribs..........................................................8
4. Installing the Beam Webs and Web Blocks...........................8
5. Installing the Wing Tips, Trailing Edge,
and Upper Beam Flanges....................................................9
6. Installing the Small Wing Stringers .........................................9
7. Adding Miscellaneous Stiffeners
and Lower Wing Walk..........................................................10
8. Installing the Leading Edge Cover Sheet ...........................10
9. Installing the Cap Strips.......................................................10
10. Installing Wing Strut, Kingpost, and Wing Skid
Support Pads and Fittings ...................................................11
11. Building and Installing the Upper Wing Ailerons ..................11
12. Installing the Aileron Control Sheaves.................................11
13. Installing the Drag Wires......................................................12
14. Installing the Fake Hinge Rods
in the Upper and Lower Wings............................................12
15. Building and Installing the Lower Wing Skids .......................12
16. Building , Installing, and Rigging the Kingposts...................12
17. Building the Upper Wing Center Section ............................13
18. Rounding the Leading Edge and Wing Tips.......................13
19. Building the Wing Struts .......................................................13
Stage 2: Building Vertical and Horizontal Stabilizers,
Rudder, and Elevator..........................................14
1. Building the Vertical Stabilizer..............................................14
2. Building the Rudder ............................................................14
3. Building the Horizontal Stabilizer..........................................15
4. Building & Installing the Elevator .........................................15
5. Mounting the Vertical Stabilizer...........................................16
Stage 3: Building the Basic Fuselage .............................16
1. Building the Fuselage Jig....................................................16
2. Building the Sides of the Fuselage......................................17
3. Placing the Sides in the Building Jig....................................17
4. Building and Installing the Horizontal Struts .........................17
5. Longeron Splices ................................................................18
6. Building & Installing the Tailpost ..........................................18
7. Installing the Front and Side Nose
Plates and Engine Bearers ..................................................18

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Stage 3: Building the Basic Fuselage (continued)
8. Installing the Cockpit Floor Board Supports
and Floor Boards ................................................................19
9. Installing the Longitudinal Side Seat Rails............................19
10. Installing Forward and Rear Cockpit Instrument
Panels, and Shelf Behind Rear Cockpit ..............................19
11. Installing the Fuselage Strut Clips........................................20
12. Installing Cross Brace Wires.................................................21
13. Building and Installing the Turtleback..................................21
14. Installing the Step Plate.......................................................21
Stage 4: Installing Cockpit Controls and Seats,
1. Installing the Joysticks and Other Flight
Control Fittings ....................................................................22
2. Building and Installing the Seat Supports,
Seats, and Rail Cross Strut...................................................23
3. Rigging More Fuselage Cross Brace Wires .........................23
Stage 5: Building and Installing the OX-5 Engine,
1. Assembly and Installation of the Fuel Tank .........................24
2. Building the OX-5 Engine ....................................................25
3. Installing the Engine and Radiator......................................28
4. Installing Engine Piping, Tubing,
and Control Linkages..........................................................29
5. Rigging Final Fuselage Cross Brace Wires ..........................30
6. Building and Installing the Prop...........................................30
Stage 6: Building and Installing the Landing Gear
1. Installing the Tail Skid and Supports.....................................30
2. Building and Installing the Landing Gear............................31
Stage 7: Installing the Cockpit Cowl, Wings,
1. Installing the Cockpit Cowl, Windshields,
and Cockpit Edging ...........................................................33
2. Installing the Vertical and Horizontal Stabilizers,
Rudder, and Elevator..........................................................33
3. Rigging the Rudder and Elevator Control Wires .................34
4. Installing and Rigging the Upper Wing
Center Section and Struts ..................................................34
5. Installing the Lower Wings ...................................................35
6. Installing the Interplane Wing Struts
and Upper Wings ................................................................35
7. Rigging the Interplane Strut Cross Brace Wires,
Flying Wires, Landing Wires, Drag Wires, and
Kingpost Wires.....................................................................36
8. Rigging the Aileron Control Wires........................................37
Finishing Touches .................................................................37
Bibliography ..........................................................................38
Photos of Model Airways' Jenny ......................................39
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and Additional Rigging.....................................22
Radiator, Fuel Tank,and Prop, and Final
Rigging of Cross Brace Wires...........................24
and Tail Skid .........................................................30
Stabilizers, Rudder, and Elevator,
and Completing the Rigging ..........................33
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