Filling the Fuselage

Thanks a lot, Andy, I’m in love with “icing” because of you. Over the long weekend I used it everywhere. The engine NACA scoops seemed a little uneven, ice them. The door lips wanted their weave filled, ice them. The strakes have some sanding scratches, ice them. The speed brake door and opening want their weave […]

Fitting the Nose Hatch and Doors

So we’re finally putting material back ONTO the fuselage. It feels good to have finally made the turn. Here we’re fitting and filling around the doors and nose cover. The doors should be done moving, having cured in the heat and sun all of last flying year, so I expect to get good mileage out […]

Sanding the Fuselage

Here’s a quick picture of the fuselage sanding continuing. We’re fixing some other odds and ends, like my door key lock froze up, so Bob replaced it this weekend, and I bonded the rudder conduit down more firmly, as I’d done it every foot or so, and we think it might have allowed too much […]

Preparing the Fuselage Around Doors

So, here we are in the home stretch, the fuselage. I kind of dreading this, because everything comes together at the fuselage, and you have to gap it all so you can get paint in there without rubbing it off at the doors and other openings. But, there’s nothing for it but to get to […]

Preparing the Doors

Here are the doors stripped down. I need to redo the lock on the pilot door, it’s jammed up and not working properly. We’ll probably hold painting them until the fuselage is good to go. Door interior Door Exterior