These baggage pods need a stand for setting them in place. The instructions suggest a cardboard box. I’ve gone for something better that can have future use as a ‘holder’ for when the pods are off the plane.

You can see from this that without a stand of some sort these would get damaged in the corner of some dusty old hangar.

I went to the local hardware, “Bunning’s Aerospace” as some of us call it, and got about $30 worth of the cheapest thing I could find to do the job, MDF and pine.

I made a pretty accurate paper template of the pods curve outboard of the center section and to my surprise it fitted both ends well.

Having cut the curve out of the four faces I just made a box with what I had.

A handful of screws later it was quite solid enough.

You might notice that I have some plastic pipe with a cut in one side to made a soft landing for the pods.

It took a few hours and I tried to be neat for a change as I intend to keep this jig.

Under the wing it is a few inches short ready for blocks of wood to get us up to ‘fitting height’. Next up is a trial fit so I can be assured I get the hardpoints in the right places.