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Everything below came off our laser or out of our design software — no stock photos. This is what your sheets look like when they arrive.

Cut sheets & parts

Complete laser-cut kit: nested balsa sheets, plywood formers, and finished tail parts — One job, one kit — every sheet plus popped-out tail parts

Balsa sheet with rows of wing ribs nested and held by retention tabs — Stab ribs nested in columns, held by retention tabs

Plywood sheet with laser-cut firewall and formers, engraved part IDs — Plywood formers with engraved part IDs and interlock notches

Close-up of laser-cut rib ends showing spar notches, retention tabs, and lightening holes — Cut detail — spar notches, tabs, lightening holes

Close-up of numbered ribs nested nose-to-tail on a balsa sheet — Ribs nested nose-to-tail, numbered in cut order

Three cut balsa sheets with engraved part labels on a light table — Every part labeled by the laser — no mystery pieces

From sheets to aircraft

Built from the same laser-cut sheets you saw above — pinned, glued, and assembled into flying structure.

Fully assembled balsa airframe skeleton — wing, truss tail boom, fin, and stabilizer — A complete airframe, every stick of it laser-cut

Close-up of tail group: oval fin, stabilizer, and truss tail boom with lightening holes — Tail group — interlocking truss boom with lightening holes

Rear three-quarter view of the assembled airframe with open rib bays — Open structure, ready for covering

Top-down view of the assembled airframe showing the symmetric planform — The drawing, made real — top-down planform

Rows of identical laser-cut ribs standing pinned on the building board — Every rib identical — that's what the laser buys you

Finished wing skeleton lying on its own printed 1:1 plan — Wing skeleton on its own 1:1 plan, straight off the board

The software behind the cuts

Wing, fuselage, and nesting tools built in-house — the same software that lays out every sheet we ship.

Nesting workspace with 95 parts auto-packed onto six balsa sheets — Auto-nesting: 95 parts packed onto six sheets by stock thickness

Fuselage designer with CAD scaffold traced over a vintage plan, CG and tail-volume analysis — Fuselage designer — CAD scaffold over the original plan, CG analysis live

3D wing designer showing wireframe wing with ribs, spars, and airfoil data — Wing designer — 3D structure, airfoil data, per-rib profiles

Single balsa sheet in the nesting view, densely packed with labeled parts — One 4×36 sheet, 43 labeled parts

Laser bed layout showing balsa sheets of nested parts assigned to the bed — Sheets assigned to the laser bed, ready to cut

Plan import view with a full vintage Gentle Lady sailplane plan sheet loaded for cropping — Import a published plan, crop the views to build from — even trace new airfoils off the sheet

1587 airfoils from the UIUC database, live preview — with a fitting utility to match unknown sections

Custom vinyl decals cut from your own images — shown here: our Phoenix logo in the decal cutter

Want parts like these?

Send us your DXF, DWG, or SVG files and we'll quote your cut.