So we’re finally putting material back ONTO the fuselage. It feels good to have finally made the turn. Here we’re fitting and filling around the doors and nose cover. The doors should be done moving, having cured in the heat and sun all of last flying year, so I expect to get good mileage out […]
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Lots of work over the hot first weekend of summer. Happy father’s day to the poppas out there. We finished sanding the bulk of the fuselage, doors, and cowlings (just odds and ends like the pockets inside the doors left). We rinsed the fuselage nose and conduits with alcohol to continue removing residual oil. We […]
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Here’s a quick picture of the fuselage sanding continuing. We’re fixing some other odds and ends, like my door key lock froze up, so Bob replaced it this weekend, and I bonded the rudder conduit down more firmly, as I’d done it every foot or so, and we think it might have allowed too much […]
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We’ve bonded the aluminum support brace into the panel and opened up the cutouts for the instruments we have. We’ll buy a backup electric attitude indicator for the middle of the 2 1/4″ gauges, and put a 3 1/8″ Trio autopilot on the bottom right, probably during Oshkosh (pictures to come when I get home […]
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Right brake overheated and failed on take-off, catching fire in the grass and destroying the airplane. I believe that Dave Dent may have been the test pilot, I think I saw something on this on the Reflector but I can’t find it now. This airplane was in an earlier accident in 2004 (NTSB). The mechanic/pilot […]
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So, I picked up these snazzy quick disconnect couplings from US Plastics right here in the buckeye state, with 1/8″-27 NPT shut-off connections on the instrument side (to keep dust out of the instrument), and hose barb connections on the airplane side. I got the 1/4″ flow size, and 1/8″ and 1/4″ hose side connections. […]
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