Antennas

Communication Antenna The Comm antennas are installed by the factory in the Fast Build Wings. Navigation Antenna The Nav antennas are installed by the factory in the Fast Build Wings. Glideslope Antenna We order material from RST Engineering to make our Glideslope antenna. Here’s a picture of my efforts… Glideslope Antenna Marker Beacon Antenna Ditto our Marker […]

Strake Rollover

We finally got all of the needed “upside down” work completed, and although there might have been a few more things we could have done while she was belly up, I was tired of looking at her in that state. For one, she looked like a dead bug. For another, the poor sawhorses were groaning. […]

2003 Velocity Ad – An amazing evolution

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Pilot Strake Complete. Ailerons and Rudders

Pilot side Strake completed, Ailerons and Rudders installed! 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 esse cillum dolore […]

Rudder Return Spring

Finally the rudder return springs were installed. These “center” the rudders once you release rudder pressure. The springs are mounted in 1″ cylinders about 18″ above the bottom of the rudder well. A 1″ hole is drilled in the winglet side, favoring the wing side, and is mounted in microballons. Next the anchor for the […]

Rudder Hinge Installation

First the hinge locations needed to be established. The lower hinge is 6″ above the rudder opening, and the upper is 6″ below the top of the rudder well, with the remaining 4″ hinge spaced evenly between them. With the locations established, 3/16″ notches were Dremeled for each hinge and chamfered, and the winglet sides […]