Rebuild of the Hawker P1081

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22 Jul 2026 21:55 - 22 Jul 2026 21:57 #1 by Quorneng
Rebuild of the Hawker P1081 was created by Quorneng
As reported in "Been Flying" the crash on the 20 Jun 26 did a lot of damage.
 
As the printed duct with the EDF was assembled first and then used as a spine to build the planked fuselage around it. One half of the fuselage was first built over the plan, the complete duct nd EDF inserted into it. and the opposite half then completed. My initial thoughts were repairs were not possible in a realistic time scale.
After some thought I arrived as a novel solution. Cut away the damage half of the fuselage.
 
Reprint the damaged parts of the duct, reinsert it into the good half fuselage and then rebuild the cut away part of the fuselage and make a new RH wing - simples!   
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24 Jul 2026 14:18 - 24 Jul 2026 14:23 #2 by Quorneng
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Some modest progress on the P1081. After rather too many hours printing, and reprinting, the EDF and duct are back in place although not yet glued in. In many cases it required a part to be printed before it was possible to determine that it did not fit so needed some adjustment and to be printing again. In some cases a repeated process!   
 
From this point rebuilding the fuselage maybe time consuming and fiddly but at least the method is tried and tested. 
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25 Jul 2026 17:28 #3 by SimonC
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Having cut away much of the damaged RH side of the fuselage to get access to rebuild the EDF ducting it occured to me that quite a bit of it could be reused once the ducting and EDF were permanently in place.
 
The LH inlet has a new printed bell mouth.
 
So now all that needs doing is:-
The RH wing root.
The complete RH wing.
The cockpit & nose.
At least the canopy & windscreen survived!
 
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