Priming CoPilot Wing with Nason

Well, we’ve finally got a functioning paint booth up and running at the house. We were going to paint at Jerry’s, but it was just a bit too cramped for the 10’x20’x9’6″ booth that we’d envisioned. In fact, getting it in my garage, and getting the heat back up and running was a bit of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Painting with UV primer

Before first flight, everything that’s bare glass should get a good coat of UV-resistant primer, so here we’re priming our cooling plenum, sparrow strainer, bolt hole covers, nose gear fork fairing, and other small odds and ends. Priming Parts Priming Pitot Mount Priming the Nose NACA Scoop Primed Plenum Elevator Torque Tube Primed