Thanksgiving 2004 Workcation

NOTE: The Velocity XL is featured in this December’s edition of Kitplanes, on shelves now!! -And- It’s the annual holiday-break Airplane Construct-Athon, where I take some much needed time off and foolishly spend every waking moment thinking abou or working on the airplane. Here’s an update thus far: Autopilot arrives, installing the Strong pitch trim system, mounting the BMA EFIS/One into the airplane, cooling plenum flanges glassed, defogger mounted, […]

Blue Mountain AutoPilot

We’ve purchased the dual axis digital autopilot from Blue Mountain. This is a really cool system, in that it can not only hold a course and altitude, it can climb to an altitude, or at a prescribed rate, or follow a flight plan that you enter into the EFIS. This is a very interesting system, in […]

Engine Shipped for Dyno Test, Spinner Arrives

Our engine has gone back to Magnum for test runs and Ken ‘EZ’ Miller spinner arrives! For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis […]

Windshield Defogger Duct

The glare shield will also house a defogger for the pilot side of the windscreen that the bilge blower will power. There will be a separate diverter valve that allows the warm air to be diverted from the floor heat vents to the defogger. Defogger plenum and Deflector Defogger Plenum Mounted Final Panel and Glareshield

Strong Pitch Trim System

Here is another situation where we’ve decided to stray from the manual. The factory system is a candy-cane shaped fiberglass spring system, with a linear actuator pushing against it to provide pressure relieve to control stick’s pitch inputs. This spring is reported to be of mixed effectiveness, and of sketchy reliability, so we’ve elected to […]

Glare Shield and Cooling Plenum

Instrument panel Glare Shield preparation and engine cooling plenum glassing. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis aute iure reprehenderit in voluptate velit […]