Preparing the New Hangar with Lighting

So, we’ve been really busy this week, but not building. We’re fully in ‘move to the new hangars’ mode, and man do we have a bunch of stuff in that hangar. Bob and Jerry are going to use the hangar next to our new one, and will start finishing and painting his wings in the […]

Door Pin Covers Potted

We did get the door receiver covers potted in today, but the custom window beauty covers weren’t cured enough to pull out. However, we did put the landing light lens back on, and finalized the engine preheater installion to the oil sump. On another note, we will be moving the Fox to a new home, with an […]

Making Window Edge Covers

We’re almost ready to pot the receiver covers in, and we should be able to pull the custom window beauty covers tomorrow. We also started working on beauty covers for the footwells, installing the Reiff engine preheat system, and we may be getting a new hangar!.

Clear Coat Control Surfaces

We got the elevators and ailerons clear coated tonight. We’ll cook them dry in the morning and then bring the fuselage back to the hangar and start getting it ready for reassembly.

Clear Coating the Wings

It’s still really cold, but we did spray clear on the wings today. One big step forward was the new heater from Home Depot which, instead of my old heater which can do only 40k Btu, can do 70-130k Btu. We’ll try to get another couple of coats tomorrow, and then get them really warm to cure […]

Spraying Blue onto the Winglets

So, it’s been really cold and snowy here this week (and pretty much everywhere), and so progress has been pretty slow. We did spray the winglets with blue, though, so check that out. I hope to get clear on the wings this weekend, which should let us finish with paint next week. Then we can bring […]