Working on the Paint Scheme

I’ll be picking up our color paint today. It’s Nason Metallic Blue. Check out the scheme, etc. here. 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 […]

Finishing Door Openings, GRT AHRS Mounted

Work continues in earnest, even in the heat. This weekend was a scorcher, but we got the new AHRS and hub mounted, and got a lot of the fit and finish work around the doors finished, and started finish work on the strakes.

Bonding Rudder Conduit, Bonding AL Panel Backer

Lots of work over the hot first weekend of summer. Happy father’s day to the poppas out there. We finished sanding the bulk of the fuselage, doors, and cowlings (just odds and ends like the pockets inside the doors left). We rinsed the fuselage nose and conduits with alcohol to continue removing residual oil. We […]

Finishing the Strakes

Well we’re happily sanding away, and have everything from the strake tops up stripped. Tomorrow we’ll lean her back and start stripping the bottom of the fuselage. We also patched the delaminations next to the copilot door today, a pretty minor repair, but something that needed to be done. Man, there’s a lot of area […]

Moving Paint Booth to Airport

The boys (Jerry Brainard and Bob Buls) wet sanded and buffed the pilot wing while I was out of state, and we moved it to the airport this weekend. Since we’ve got Bob’s wings in my hangar as well, it’s a bit of a tight squeeze, but we found room for everything. Thanks to Carlos, my GRT Horizon system […]

Finishing the Doors

I’m getting ready for a trip to Utah on business, but I wanted to get these pictures up of the stripped doors. I’ll probably wait to paint these and the doghouse until we strip the fuselage, because they need a bit of work to really match properly. Doors.