This is a fairly straight-forward section where you glass the strake leading edge pieces to the doors, so that the match up with the strakes and have tongue-depressor gap for door operation. However, we did notice on the new factory aircraft (Dash-5) they had installed these fingerwells on the doors, to help in pulling the […]
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The windows were installed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory, all that was left for us to do was to bed the windows in with Veloci-Poxy microballon slurry up to the outer skin line. We also did this for our added “strake bottom” windows. Bedding Window Glass in Micro-balloons Window […]
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The majority of this work was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. However, the bedding of the hinges to the fuselage was left to us. This was done while the plane was inverted to complete the strake close-out work, and involved micro-glass in the hinge recess and then bedding […]
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The door hinge installation was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. The only portions of the work left to us was counter-sinking the screw holes, bonding the hinges to the doors with structural adhesive, and fairing the hinge to the inside of the door and filling the door screw […]
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After we flipped the plane for Fuel Strake completion in Chapter 9, we went ahead and fitted the overhead fresh air duct since it was convenient. Special Report – ROLLOVER. Next we fit the lights (from a late model Jetta) and eyeball vents. The beauty ring on the vents were too big so we trimmed them, […]
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Since the premolded engine cooling NACA ducts don’t seem to be covered elsewhere in the manual, I’ll include them here. Much of the cutting was completed during Head Start, though I did cut the overheard fresh air duct at home. Then they’re all fitted up and held in place. The engine naca’s had been set […]
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