I have a road kill on my bench what I need is some info the 8n sticks of bass wood.

There are two longs for the leading edge of the wing the 4 med lenght. One goes for the struts the two short ones are for what? On the plans it showes that there is a strip [2, one each side]of the fuselage. What I have is two short ones not long enough for the side. Did I mess up or what?

From : Don Stackhouse

The longest (14.5" on the Junior, 13" on the Cub) pair of strips form the leading edges of the lower wing skins (the ones with the slots in them for the ribs). On the Cub, the remaining strips are for the wing struts. On the Junior, there are four 12" pieces for the four main wing struts.

On the Junior, the two shortest pieces (9.5" each) run from that furthest-forward notch in the bottom of the fuselage, out to the underside of that little tab that sticks out from the bottom front corner of the jury struts, right in front of the forward main strut. You can see the right one fairly clearly in the big photo on the box label. These are scale struts that really don't do much on the model.

I believe that on the full-scale Junior their primary job was to help carry the loads from the tension in a wire that ran from the bottom of the jury strut on each wing back to the tail on each side. Those wires were back there mainly to discourage folks on the ground from getting too close to the pusher prop, sort of like a safety fence. However, a large human walking into a wire like that could put a pretty big tug on it, which could bend or buckle the jury struts and main struts if they didn't have this extra bracing.

Don Stackhouse
DJ Aerotech