The weather finally warmed up enough on a weekend that we wanted to open the doors. So we decided to start installing our brushes to keep the birds and peebles out of the hangar. We haven’t gotten any visitors yet here, but the birds were a constant problem in the old hangar. Also, Bob and […]
Read MoreWe’ve gotten a new home for Victor Fox, and although it may seem odd to have a section of the website dedicated to the hangar, we’ve made a significant number of improvements that I thought folks might be interested in. The hangar is 15I at Lebanon-Warren County Airport, and the shop/pilot’s lounge is 15J. The Brainards […]
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I’m finalizing the new cooling plenum. First note that I’m making a pop-up oil door instead of the factory style yogurt-cup bump down like I mentioned previously. This door will pop up into the cowling door and allow me to get my hand down onto the dipstick while also allowing for better airflow. Note also […]
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We’re finalizing all of the upholstery covers for the interior. Here I’m working on the side extensions to the false bulkhead. Once they’re done, I’m going to make a fiberglass cover from in front of the fuel tank vents back on to these “wings”. This will complete the interior pieces ready for covering. False bulkhead […]
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I opted not to use the factory door seal, since I didn’t think theirs looked very robust, and I’d heard of a lot leaky Velocitys. I ended up getting seal from Avtek, and I really like it. It makes the airplane much quieter, and our hose test seems to indicate that they seal, but we’ll see […]
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Here you can see we’ve glassed Triax over the stub-to-runner seam. I saw Andy do this and liked it. However, after it was cured I didn’t think it mated or “pushed up” enough on the seam to seal it. So I decided to retape the runner, lay some BID on there, schmooey across that to […]
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