Well we’re happily sanding away, and have everything from the strake tops up stripped. Tomorrow we’ll lean her back and start stripping the bottom of the fuselage. We also patched the delaminations next to the copilot door today, a pretty minor repair, but something that needed to be done. Man, there’s a lot of area […]
Read MoreThe boys (Jerry Brainard and Bob Buls) wet sanded and buffed the pilot wing while I was out of state, and we moved it to the airport this weekend. Since we’ve got Bob’s wings in my hangar as well, it’s a bit of a tight squeeze, but we found room for everything. Thanks to Carlos, my GRT Horizon system […]
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I’m getting ready for a trip to Utah on business, but I wanted to get these pictures up of the stripped doors. I’ll probably wait to paint these and the doghouse until we strip the fuselage, because they need a bit of work to really match properly. Doors.
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May’s gone, and so is wing painting. I’m going out of town this week on business (first trip to Utah), but the boys promise to sand the pilot side wing in my absence. That’s the sign of a real friend, there, folks. This weekend we reprimed, sanded, and painted the pilot side wing. We also […]
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Well, we’ve wet sanded and buffed both the copilot wing and canard, and they look sharp. They are way better than I thought we could do on our own, even though there are still some blemishes here and there, I’m quite pleased. Copilot So today I borrowed my mother-in-law’s car (with trailer hitch-thanks!) and we took them […]
Read MoreSo, we sanded, filled, and re-primed the canard. That took a couple of days, but tonight we sprayed color finally. We’ll see when it cures out, but it seems we’re starting to get the hang of this. We hit it with a light tack coat, and then 1 full color coat, 1 final heavy coat, […]
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