T-33 Refinish & Detailing: Will This 6-Year Project Finally Fly?

This Freewing T-33 Shooting Star has been sitting in the box for at least 5 or more years and had a refinish started by my friend  @hechtspeed . Well, it's time to bring it to life with some scale detailing, a new cockpit , a fresh refinish, and a test flight in primer—but will it survive the dreaded first flight? Especially in light of recent events... 😆

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00:00 Straight Through It...
00:25 About the Project
01:48 What's in the BOX??
02:16 Filling & Smoothing the Remaining Parts
03:04 Primer, Sand, Repeat...
03:55 Final Filling & Sanding
04:43 Building & Painting a 3D Printed Cockpit
06:52 Final Assembly, Detailing & Flight Setup
11:25 Ready For Flight?
11:47 The Refinish Process
13:15 Scale Modifications
16:25 Making the Cockpit
18:11 Scale Inlet Modifications
19:34 Control Setup
20:42 This Video is Brought to you by PCBWay
21:16 Let's FLY!
23:05 Takeoff
24:40 That Airshow Pass
26:35 Landing & Post Flight Thoughts
27:53 What NEXT??