101 section, so this aspect of the project is often held up while parts and information are located. Fortunately, Martin had his side project working on the wing spar joints and inner spar booms while the rear section bits are located. The rear mono and fin are built in two separate sections and brought together as one assembly. The first order of business was JP843’s fin. This is an area that Martin designed using information from original drawings as well as measurements taken from the sole surviving Typhoon MN235 while it was on loan to Canada. The design was completed, and all tooling made in the shop. I have now produced all fin ribs, had them heat treated, and have now put them aside to get back to work on the monocoque while the fin assembly fixture is designed. Still the forward monocoque in not done! Work was progressing very nicely for this section, but I needed to make a few detours on side projects along the way. The first little side project took me nearly six months to complete. This was to produce a second set of Typhoon fuselage frames. Since our friends at the Jet Age Museum in the UK were going to need to do all of this work all over again for their static Typhoon rebuild, I offered to produce a set of frames for them using the tooling that I had produced for JP843. The frames were well received and will look great when mated to their very original early Typhoon cockpit. The second detour was the Merlin III project that I undertook and got a lot of flak for doing so! In 2019 I approached the owner of the Sabre VII in NZ asking about potentially acquiring the engine for use at Typhoon Legacy. I was offered a trade
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