Speed Brake Cutout Peeling

Here’s the first bit of paint to come off of the airplane. I say the first to avoid the disappointment if it spreads outside of the speed brake cutout. Obviously a lot of oil from our nose leak dripped out this cut out and the whole area was very very messy. We cleaned it several […]

Clear Coating Control Surfaces

We ran out tonight just long enough to clear coat the ailerons and elevators to kick off the long weekend. I want to get the fuselage back into the hangar on Saturday so we can work on it, so we needed to be done with painting. They look nice, and I’m officially bringing the paint […]

Spraying Clear Coat onto Wings

We sprayed clear on the wings today, after uncovering everything. It’s always surprising how nice everything looks after the masking is removed. The new massive construction heater is working out great, allowing us to get the temperature of the booth well into the 80s without even running it on high. Tomorrow we’ll try to get […]

Spraying Blue onto Winglets

It’s been really cold and snowy here, so the painting has been going a bit slowly. We sprayed the winglets with blue on Tuesday, but there a few places were the paint beaded up. I think this might be polishing compound that didn’t get sanded off well enough. In any event, we heated the booth […]

Clear Coat Canard and Door Beams

The canard and door interiors are looking good in a fresh clear coat. We’ll ditch the canard and bring the main wings in tomorrow and get started on them. We should get the canard touch-up tomorrow and clear the door beams and the canard on Saturday. Inside door beam clear coat Canard Clear Coat

Strake Join Line Touch Up

Here you can see where the strake to wing join line need some extra loving. Interior wing-strake color coat Interior wing-strake color coat 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 exercitationem ullam corporis […]