George, Thank you for posting. Is it true what heatbeatntreat says that you only had limited original drawings/documentation and that what you did have had little or no numbers or writing on it? I am told that there is quite a lot of original material still available in the Japanese archives. I thought you must have gotten access to it. Were the 1 & 2 rib jigs used to mount the cockpit/fuselage section cut down as Heattreatnbeat alludes to, or handed off to The Champlin Collection? I am trying to identify which NAA Aerofoil shape the 1 & 2 ribs were equivalent to. But have had no success. I guess if they were passed to Champlin, they would now be in Paul Allen's Collection in Seattle.
Thank you George, Herb, yourself and the team did an outstanding job, and never really got enough credit from the warbird community. The Ki-43 is a very rare and important aircraft, it is a pity your small production run could not have been expanded.
_________________ "If that's a goddamn 'Jug' in front of me, you sure as hell better wiggle your wings." 80FS/8FG Cape Gloucester, December 1943. And the entire 41st Fighter Squadron rocked their wings.
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR P-38 PARTS
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