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

Painting the Pilot Wing

This weekend we reprimed, sanded, and painted the pilot side wing. We also patched the panel opening where the Blue Mountain lived, making way for the new goodies. Up next, install the GRT Horizon HX (shipping this week!) and preparing the fuselage for paint. Painted pilot wing Bottom Painted pilot wing Top

Patching Panel for Upgrades

Well, last week I took the remaining dregs of the Blue Mountain EFIS out of the plane, and finallized the EIS wiring. I’ve made an aluminum template for the new GRT Horizon HX system, as well as the 2 1/4″ backup gauges that I’m going to install (airspeed and altimeter for now – and YES […]

Priming the Pilot Wing

So, you get the idea at this point. This wing was in pretty good shape, but there were several “dimples” that needed filling (most of which actually got filled), and a couple of spots on the outboard end that needed some real (not a ton, but a fair amount of) fill. We filled it, and […]

Painting the Canard

So, 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, […]

Priming the Canard

Today primed the canard. We spent most of last weekend getting the EIS wiring up to snuff, but it’s not very photogenic. This week was sand and fill (and grinding off some canard-tip layups I did a *long* time ago before I knew better-they were as thick as battleship armor). So, today was the day, […]