Wing Painting Complete

May’s gone, and so is wing painting. I’m going out of town this week on business (first trip to Utah), but the boys promise to sand the pilot side wing in my absence. That’s the sign of a real friend, there, folks. This weekend we reprimed, sanded, and painted the pilot side wing. We also […]

Canard Buffed and Polished

Well, we’ve wet sanded and buffed both the copilot wing and canard, and they look sharp. They are way better than I thought we could do on our own, even though there are still some blemishes here and there, I’m quite pleased. Copilot So today I borrowed my mother-in-law’s car (with trailer hitch-thanks!) and we took them […]

Trailing Edge Fence Sheet

I covered a sheet of 3/8″ divincyl for my “Savier” sized trailing edge fences. We’ll cut these out later and attach them when we’re ready to flight test them. Trailing Edge Fences For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut […]

Sanding and Repriming the Canard

So, we sanded, filled, and re-primed the canard. That took a couple of days, but tonight we sprayed color finally. We’ll see when it cures out, but it seems we’re starting to get the hang of this. We hit it with a light tack coat, and then 1 full color coat, 1 final heavy coat, […]

Priming the Canard

We finally primed the canard today. I was really hoping to get out to the hangar and finish up the EIS wiring since it was sooo gorgeous out today, but we ended up doing some fill-and-sand work with the “Icing” body filler, and just ran out of time. It looks pretty good to me. We’re […]

Copilot Wing White Coat Finished

So, the co-pilot side (damaged) wing has been polished, buffed, and covered in plastic. It’s done, ready to get the N number and go on. She looks good. Really good, in fact, and better than I really thought we’d get on our own. It’s not perfect, though, and we’ll get a professional paint job some […]