Well, we had gotten a hangar at our local airport (I68, about 7 miles away), and since we were pretty much done with the work on them, we figured we reclaim the dining and living rooms by taking the wings to the airport. Fortunately our friends, and XL/RG builders, the Brainards live in nearby Lebanon and have […]
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This is a fairly straight-forward section where you glass the strake leading edge pieces to the doors, so that the match up with the strakes and have tongue-depressor gap for door operation. However, we did notice on the new factory aircraft (Dash-5) they had installed these fingerwells on the doors, to help in pulling the […]
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The windows were installed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory, all that was left for us to do was to bed the windows in with Veloci-Poxy microballon slurry up to the outer skin line. We also did this for our added “strake bottom” windows. Bedding Window Glass in Micro-balloons Window […]
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The majority of this work was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. However, the bedding of the hinges to the fuselage was left to us. This was done while the plane was inverted to complete the strake close-out work, and involved micro-glass in the hinge recess and then bedding […]
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The door hinge installation was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. The only portions of the work left to us was counter-sinking the screw holes, bonding the hinges to the doors with structural adhesive, and fairing the hinge to the inside of the door and filling the door screw […]
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Before the mounts can be installed, the firewall protection (a layer of Nomex covered with stainless steel) needs to be installed. First I created a paper template of the firewall to get the shape correct. Firewall Template Next I made a rigid template out of poster-board to trace to the stainless. Poster-Board Template Then I […]
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