Constructing the Paint Booth

Painting has begun in earnest. Here’s a shot or two from building the paintbooth in the garage, and the first shots of us spraying the Nason 2k primer. Jerry was good enough to bring the copilot wing (repaired) and the canard over to our place where we had more room to erect the booth. Building Paint Booth […]

Incident Repair VI

Here you can see the wing damage repair entering it’s final stages. As you can see below, we added some superfill on the rudder-cable-delamination repair, as well as a couple of low spots on the main repair, and on the strobe repair and some miscellaneous dips in the skin finish. It’s funny what you find […]

Incident Repair V

As you’ll see, we’re trying some new epoxies and fillers for our repairs. On the wingtip, where the strobe repair is coming along, we’re using Superfill to fair it in, to good effect. On the wing, we’re trying the West system for finishing it out, and will likely use superfil over the top to get […]

Deciding to Paint Ourselves

We’ve begun the recovery process. If you haven’t read the incident report, check that out here. Also check out the repairs here. In this section we’ll talk about the process of painting Victor Fox, as we decided we’d put on a “real” coating of paint since we had to do something with the damaged wing anyway. We’ve […]

Incident Repair IV

Well, I took pretty much the entire holiday break off from plane building. I don’t know if it’s the cold, or the fact that we wouldn’t jump right back into the air after putting things right, but I haven’t had a huge sense of urgency. As you’ll see below, the repairs are coming along nicely. […]

Incident Repair III

Today we started setting the new wing cores. We’ll finalize the wing repair in steps, we’ve patched the outboard wing as well, and we’ll hard-shell the cores to contour match next, then lay 3 alternating layers of Uni on top, and finally bond the new strobe mount on. Here you can see the outboard repair […]