Kitty hawk RF-101 voodoo

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Can't wait to see the build! I've wanted one of these.
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Looking good Clint! This might be a fighter, but you will be able to beat it into submission with your skills. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Mike and Mark, thank you both.

I hope that a few seconds of heat from my heat gun will be enough to straighten the warp out without harming the surface.
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So a friend is planning on building a vacuum former in the spring that means I can make a new canopy for this. Plus with the extreme warp in the body I've decided to put this one back in the box with just a few of the pieces glued until the spring. I got a ton of night fighters to choose from for this GB. Lyle you can delete this thread if you want so not to clutter up this GB page.
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Re: Kitty hawk RF-101 voodoo

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Bummer. What is the canopy issue? I’ll have to check my kit for warpage.
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The canopy was cracked right out of the box and kitty hawk wanted $15+shipping for a new one. I figured I could get a vacuum formed one for that price. I haven't found any and now kitty hawk filled bankruptcy and can't get a new one from them now
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No need to remove this right now. Sorry about the canopy.
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Re: Kitty hawk RF-101 voodoo

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Are you building a twin seat F-101B, like the box shows, or a single seat RF-101A/C? If you’re not doing a single seater, perhaps you can get a canopy off of one of the Revellogram F-101B kits.
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I didn't think about that, I'll have to see if I can track one of them kits down
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Re: Kitty hawk RF-101 voodoo

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Bummer on the canopy. Poking around, the best I found was this on ebay. With the canopy open might work just fine. $21 and free shipping - pricy for a canopy
https://www.ebay.com/p/2255628750
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