This weekend I basically worked on rigging the Curtiss H-16, a laborious job that involved a lot of research into the position of all the cables.
The techniques are the same as those already used in other models, we use monofilament nylon and broom bristles glued with viscous cyanoacrylate glue. We use a transfer caliper to measure the size of the cables to be cut and to position them we use a wide variety of small electronics tweezers.
We started from the inside out in the interplane area, starting with the support cables for the engine struts, then adhering each structural "box" of cables following the references. Aircraft from the First World War did not have hydraulic controls, everything was moved by pulleys, the larger the plane, the more pulleys, hence the complex system of control cables that were installed later, then we installed the longitudinal structural cables of the wings following the references and then After three days, we have 80% of the work completed, and can then move on to the tail cables as well as the tail control cables.
