THE KIT

You get two finely done brass parts in a plastic envelope, which is inside another plastic envelope. Good plan – loose parts of this size would be a disaster, not to mention impossible to find. I liked the instruction sheet, it was simple, to the point, and uncluttered.

ASSEMBLY

I had some problems with this project. I had originally planned to replace the pitot on my Jaguar T.2 with this pitot. Wrong part, I had to build a Jaguar GR1. And then the paint job. I had run out of RAF Operation Granby Sand paint, and didn’t have any around. So I decided to mix my own. Been a while since I mixed paints, and I got it entirely too reddish the first try. Threw it out and retried. Much closer on the second try. I am proud and happy that the RAF decided to go single colour on their Jaguars.

This one is another with a challenge on the pitot tube. You have to install the kit assembly, which partly fills a gap in the nose. Then you cut off the kit pitot, drill a .5 mm hole where the other pitot was, and insert the new brass part. This has a degree of difficulty. The AOA probe is simplicity itself, as the area where it goes is flat and the .3 mm drill just does its work.

I happened to buy a metric set of tiny drills at a RC show a couple of years ago. Made it a lot easier than trying to figure out the equivalent of .3 and .5 mm.

A bit of gel-type CA, and a bit of touch up, and the project is finished.

OVERALL EVALUATION:

Highly recommended. The pitot is far stronger and more durable than the kit part, and it looks great.