We decided to move our combustion air and firewall oil cooler runner ducts from flat bottom-facing duct connections to side exiting ducts. We’re also making the ends permanently attached to the firewall so they are very rigid, as we’d had issues with them pulling the cowl screw out and collapsing. We’re also added a little […]
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We’ve put the booth up. Yup, that’s it. Well, we did finish up the fans and some masking off of the airplane, too. Paintbooth Paintbooth Paint Air Dryer Inlet air fan Extension cord and air hose access holes For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut […]
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I was lucky enough to get a new camera for my birthday. This little gem is made for snowboarding and the like, so it can really handle high light conditions, and won’t get overexposed when the airplane turns towards the sun. ContourHD mini camera (for awesome HD flight footage!)
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It doesn’t take long after you start calling your airplane 44-Victor-Foxtrot to become 4-Victor-Fox. If you say Victor Fox a few times, it starts to really sound like someone’s name. If you think about it too long, it starts to sound like a Fox’s name who’s just won something. Thus, the idea for our mascot […]
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Here we’re de-oiling the belly. I’ll report back once we’re sure if this worked or not. Degreasing belly Belly prepped Paintbooth 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 […]
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Since we’ve decided to paint ourselves, we figured we needed a design. We’d talked with the folks from Air Graphics at Osh Kosh pretty much every year, so it was a natural fit to go back to them. We shared with them our initial thoughts and they worked up a few designs for us to comment on, and we […]
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