Trailing Edge Fence Sheet

I covered a sheet of 3/8″ divincyl for my “Savier” sized trailing edge fences. We’ll cut these out later and attach them when we’re ready to flight test them. Trailing Edge Fences For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut […]

2009 – N45YV – Olef Simonsen – Velocity SE/FG – Katy, TX – 1

Crashed shortly after installing a new prop. This accident is a little troubling to me, because the available pictures look like it came straight down on it’s roof, which is really odd for a Velocity. Maybe there’s something that the pictures don’t show, but it doesn’t seem to have skidded or tumbled. UPDATE: After reading […]

Painting the Canard

So, we sanded, filled, and re-primed the canard. That took a couple of days, but tonight we sprayed color finally. We’ll see when it cures out, but it seems we’re starting to get the hang of this. We hit it with a light tack coat, and then 1 full color coat, 1 final heavy coat, […]

Sanding and Repriming the Canard

So, we sanded, filled, and re-primed the canard. That took a couple of days, but tonight we sprayed color finally. We’ll see when it cures out, but it seems we’re starting to get the hang of this. We hit it with a light tack coat, and then 1 full color coat, 1 final heavy coat, […]

Priming the Canard

We finally primed the canard today. I was really hoping to get out to the hangar and finish up the EIS wiring since it was sooo gorgeous out today, but we ended up doing some fill-and-sand work with the “Icing” body filler, and just ran out of time. It looks pretty good to me. We’re […]

Priming the Canard

Today primed the canard. We spent most of last weekend getting the EIS wiring up to snuff, but it’s not very photogenic. This week was sand and fill (and grinding off some canard-tip layups I did a *long* time ago before I knew better-they were as thick as battleship armor). So, today was the day, […]