[Picture Album] 2003 Rough River

Here are some pictures from the Rough River fly-in in October 2003. 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 […]

Magazine: Sport Aviation October 2003 – Dash-5 Launch

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Wings Move to the Airport

Well, we had gotten a hangar at our local airport (I68, about 7 miles away), and since we were pretty much done with the work on them, we figured we reclaim the dining and living rooms by taking the wings to the airport. Fortunately our friends, and XL/RG builders, the Brainards live in nearby Lebanon and have […]

N Number Reserved

Fresh Air Duct installed, co-pilot door leading edge progress and hinges bedded, firewall protection installed, plane back on gear, and Main wings moved to Hangar (I68), N-Number reserved – N44VF 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 […]

Installing Leading Edge of Strake to Door

This is a fairly straight-forward section where you glass the strake leading edge pieces to the doors, so that the match up with the strakes and have tongue-depressor gap for door operation. However, we did notice on the new factory aircraft (Dash-5) they had installed these fingerwells on the doors, to help in pulling the […]

Install Windows

The windows were installed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory, all that was left for us to do was to bed the windows in with Veloci-Poxy microballon slurry up to the outer skin line. We also did this for our added “strake bottom” windows. Bedding Window Glass in Micro-balloons Window […]