Spraying Blue onto Ancillary Parts

We finished spraying blue on everything that will remain blue, so they’ll have two coats when we spray next, hopefully on Sunday. We got a couple of runs, but we should be able to sand everything out on Saturday. More Blue More Blue More Blue More Blue More Blue More Blue

Nosewheel Shimmy Dampener

I finally found the Nylon nut that Andy gave me at Oshkosh (it was still in my pocket, so it’s nice and clean) . We’ll use this to hopefully reduce our steering friction, but still maintain good anti-shimmy dampening. Also, you can see that I lost my mind, and have decided to go ahead and […]

Reiff Preheater Delivery

We’ll start installing the Reiff preheat system once the cowling work is done. Here you can see we’ve purchased the turbo XL version. Reiff preheater system (turbo XL) 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 […]

Mounting EIS Outside Temperature Probe

Here you can see that I’ve drilled a hole for the EIS Outside Air Temperature probe, and the fuselage was too thick for the nut to hold it on. I removed the inner skin and foam, shaped it, and laid 4 BID in the recess. After curing, I drilled the hole back out and installed […]

Door Pin Covers, Part I

December, 2009 Here we’re finally installing the door cover panels. Since we’re going to be looking to have the upholstery installed this spring we need to finalize some of these details so they can do their work. Here we’ve used structural epoxy to mount the attach points, which were previously made (see below). Because of […]

GRT First Power Up

So, Blue Mountain is officially out of business. I hate to see them go, but the writing was on the wall. But, I’m firmly on the GRT path. This weekend we had a EAA meeting, so that sort of boogered up working on the plane, but I did finish wiring up the GRT and powered […]