This section was primarily finished as part of the fast-build fuselage, however we did glass the front of the strake forward face with 2 BID, and layup 4 Uni plys onto the carbon beam and inside to the back wall of the strake forward face.
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The gas springs are surprisingly easy to install. First you drill and tap a couple of thin hardpoints, and flox and BID them onto the carbon beams about 14″ up from the door pin. Once cured, the BID and the beam are drilled through were the spring ball will screw into the hard point, and […]
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The Pilot door security lock was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. However, we decided to install our door switches on the security lock, this way we will know not only that the doors are closed and latched, BUT ALSO that the security latch is engaged. We chose this […]
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Well, we had gotten a hangar at our local airport (I68, about 7 miles away), and since we were pretty much done with the work on them, we figured we reclaim the dining and living rooms by taking the wings to the airport. Fortunately our friends, and XL/RG builders, the Brainards live in nearby Lebanon and have […]
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This is a fairly straight-forward section where you glass the strake leading edge pieces to the doors, so that the match up with the strakes and have tongue-depressor gap for door operation. However, we did notice on the new factory aircraft (Dash-5) they had installed these fingerwells on the doors, to help in pulling the […]
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The windows were installed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory, all that was left for us to do was to bed the windows in with Veloci-Poxy microballon slurry up to the outer skin line. We also did this for our added “strake bottom” windows. Bedding Window Glass in Micro-balloons Window […]
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