[Picture Album] 2006 Airventure

Another Airventure is in the books. Of course I haven’t done any work in the past 10 days because of it, but it was great. Of interest were the Velocity Twin (model) and Turbo, and the Stagger EZ (not a Velocity, but very cool). Also check out the Velocitys that flew in below, I didn’t get […]

Finishing Cowling

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Lower Cowling Flanges

The lower cowling flanges are made in much the same way as the upper, except it is much harder because gravity is working against you, so after wetting the wing, cowling, and glass, I let it all get tacky. Then I tried to fold and apply it too early, got really aggravated, and just brute-forced […]

Rigging of the Roll System

The first step of this section is to drill holes in the gear bulkhead and firewall and route the aileron push-pull cables through to the wing roots. This is easier said than done, and I spent the better part of an evening getting these fairly ridgid cables to pass through. Argh. Now that the engine […]

Upper Cowl-to-Wing Flanges

Here we’ve duct taped the upper cowling and sanded the wing surfaces down to the glass where the cowling meets it in preparation for the cowling flanges. This is a 5 BID layup that I wetted wing and the upper cowling, then wetted the glass out on plastic and folded in half and laid on […]

2006 – N992PC – Unknown – Velocity XL/RG – Modesto, CA – 0

Gear up landing. On July 11, 2006, about 1133 Pacific daylight time, an experimental Velocity 173/RG-XL, N992PC, had a landing gear collapse during a hard landing at Modesto City Airport, Modesto, California. The pilot/owner/builder was operating the airplane under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The private pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured; […]