This wasn’t a great weekend for working on the airplane, though we did get some very nice weather for late October in Ohio. We had some Halloween things to do on Saturday, and Sunday was our EAA meeting. So, we elected to keep to manageable bits of work, we covered the fuselage and primed the […]
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The windows are a pain in the ass. We’re going to paint onto them slightly to make them look more flush than they really are. We’ve hit them with about 1/8″ of primer, and we’ll go another 1/8″ onto the window with the top coat using 3M Fine Line tape. We also sprayed chrome Krylon […]
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We’ve finally started shooting paint. The weather was cool, but with the sun shining on the paint booth, and the gas heater was set just in front of the inlet fan, so we were able to hold the temps steady in the 70s. Elizabeth is working on the final paint scheme with Air Graphics.
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The runner modifications are nearly done now, the hinges are on to mate the two halves together, and the stubs are firmly bonded to the fuselage. The only thing remaining is to add the new ducts for the engine and oil cooler on the side of the runners. Forming the duct glassed extensions Runner stub […]
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We’ve moved both the engine air intake and the rear oil cooler intakes from the bottom to the sides, and have made slanted pick-ups that should improve the airflow. 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 […]
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Here we’ve finally masked the fuselage off in preparation for spraying primer. Nose Masking Wheel masking 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 commodi […]
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