ll update this once we’ve flown it, but here are pictures of our finished nose gear fairing. Again, we’ve elected to use a fuselage-to-leg fairing from Ken Mishler because it seemed like a much better fairing, and I trimmed the end of the leg fairing to conform to the leg. Not everybody does that, and […]
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Based on a study that David Ullman did on VGs for the top of the Velocity, specifically to generate better airflow into the cooling NACA ducts, I’ve decided to replicate his experiences. He determined that larger vortex generators that are typically used on airfoils would be required to get into the high energy air at the edge […]
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Check out the various avionics and electrical sections for the details, but I was asked to show the fully completed panel separately, so here it is. 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 […]
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So, the funny thing about pre-planning avionics installations…. you never remember what you planned if you don’t write it down really clearly somewhere. I had a wonderful plan, but I forgot a bunch of it and ended up wasting a bunch of time. Shame on me. So, first thing, I had originally planned for a […]
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Collection of current wiring diagrams (more or less)… not really of interest to anyone but me, probably, but there in one place now… The VP-X manages most of the electrical loads, I have direct to breakers for the ignition (didn’t want to trust that to software) and the alternators (they need “real” breakers to trip […]
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