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Pilot Detail

Here’s a different way to detail your dummy pilot. Instead of the usual helmet and goggles, or “bone dome,” try headphones and a boom mike. Make the headband with a couple of layers of self-adhesive vinyl tape, and the single ear pad with a circle of sticky-back foam that has a plain washer glued to it. The boom mike is made out of a dressmaker’s pin that has a plastic head. Adapted from 400 Great...

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