Painting the Strake Pockets

Well, I was hoping we could announce some color coating over the weekend, but we didn’t get to it. We did finish sanding out the windows, crackle-coated the strake pockets, and chromed the landing light recess. Check out the pictures.

Paint Scheme Finalized

Sweet work coming out of Air Graphics as we finalize our paint scheme with them. Here’s our latest side view, which I think is pretty close to finally. Pretty sweet, eh? For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore […]

More Fuselage Priming

Wow, it’s been too long since an update. Things are moving forward, but I’ve been really busy and just haven’t been doing it. So we’ve sanded out the first coat of primer, and sprayed the second coat, and are sanding it now. Also of note, we’ve added some additional lighting to the paint booth as […]

Spraying Primer onto the Fuselage

We’re finally slinging paint again. We finished up with the NACA runners to the point that we can paint, so we finshed up masking her off and sprayed primer today. With the torpedo gas heater we’re able to hold the temperature in the booth in the high seventies pretty easily. Check out the pictures.

New Side Discharge Cooling Plenum Runners

So, I’m back, and we’re finalizing the plenum runner mods so we can paint. We’ve moved both the engine air intake and the rear oil cooler intakes from the bottom to the sides, and have made slanted pick-ups that should improve the airflow. In other news, we did make it to Rough River this year, and renew […]

[Picture Album] 2009 Rough River

Pictures from the Central States Canard Fly-in at Rough River State Park, Falls of the Rough, Kentucky. 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 suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex […]