Preparing the Fuselage Around Doors

So, here we are in the home stretch, the fuselage. I kind of dreading this, because everything comes together at the fuselage, and you have to gap it all so you can get paint in there without rubbing it off at the doors and other openings. But, there’s nothing for it but to get to […]

Preparing the Doors

Here are the doors stripped down. I need to redo the lock on the pilot door, it’s jammed up and not working properly. We’ll probably hold painting them until the fuselage is good to go. Door interior Door Exterior

Brake Reservoir Relocation

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Wings to Aircraft

Here we’re doing miscellaneous filling and sanding to get the contours correct. Strake Door Finish Canard Mounting 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 ex ea […]

Interior Door Cover, Part I

The door cover panels are pre-molded by the factory. There’s a hump where the door handle comes through, but figuring out where exactly was a bit challenging, so I ended up needing to close up my first hole a bit. Also, stealing an idea from my buddy Andy, I used left-over foam with a light BID […]

Builder Data Plate

You’ve got to have a data plate installed to be legal to fly. Our first data plate came form Aircraft Spruce, though later we’d look to get a specialized plate. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim […]