New Glare Shield

So, I never really liked how the old glare shield fit my panel, and since I was making a new panel, I figure, “might-as-well” make a new custom shield too. My buddy Andy make one from last-a-foam, and it came out so nice I was jealous. I cut the foam to the approximate shape of […]

Drudgery

I’m doing a lot of good work lately, but as with the strakes so many years ago now, none of it’s really user-noticeable. Folks come by the hangar and wonder what I’ve been spending my time on. Admittedly I was down with the flu all of last week pretty much, but mostly I’m waiting on […]

Third Panel, Part II – Schematics

The new panel is coming along, though I’m still waiting for some parts here and there. In the meantime I’ve been finalizing the schematics and line listing in preparation for building the wire bundle. VP-X Spreadsheet For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et […]

The mid-winter blues

Work progresses, but as I write this I have a cold and it’s 5 degrees outside. The shop is heated and insulated, but even with that it does struggle to keep it comfortable on days like this. I have the panel just about ready to go back together, but GRT is back-ordered on the large […]

Props

Mad props to my…. No, no, that’s not what I mean. We’re still trying to decide what constant speed/variable-pitch propeller to buy for our airplane. It’s pretty frustrating, actually, and we’ve bounced back and forth a couple of times now. At first we thought we had a a lead on an MT for a really […]

Happy New Year 2011

So my Christmas break is over, and I’m catching up on all of the stuff I’ve neglected over the last two weeks. As I mentioned in a blog post, I’ve been planning for several weeks, and started working over the break, on a new instrument panel. My buddy Andy was good enough to give me […]