We’ve decided on Oregon Aero to do our upholstery and temper foam the seats. They were nice enough to offer to ship us their “standard Velocity” foam package at no charge to see if that would meet our need, or allow us to give them input for our seats. We’ll ship them the seats for custom foam […]
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Currently taking bids on the seats, consequently we’ve begun work on the LCD display mounts for the seatbacks. We will be installing a DVD system for the rear seat passengers. We ended up going with Oregon Aero for our upholstery, and picked some nice grays for the interior color. This theme will be matched throughout the cabin. They custom […]
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Before installing the upper strake half, all of the interior surfaces are covered with Jeffco Fuel sealant. And the fuel intake screen is installed. Next the bulkheads and baffles have a significant (about 1/4″) mound of Jeffco and flox spread on them top stake skin is carefully set in place, with the ground wire exiting […]
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Well, this is where things went terribly wrong. First off, the instructions refer to a “strake cut template” that you don’t get in your kit. You’re supposed to lay this over the strake about 30″ back from the place were the fuselage halves meet on the front of the door opening. You call the factory, […]
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The sump tank gets mounting tabs on the rounded side, to allow it to be connected to the gear bulkhead with AN3 bolts later. These tabs are made out of 2 ply of BID laying flat (3″x4″) and 2 ply of TRIAX (2″x4″) laid on the sump in and ‘L’ shape to overlap the BID. Here’s a […]
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We’ll be installing Vance Atkinson’s very nice lighted fuel gauges, which come with separate instructions to open up about 1/2 holes in the face of the bulkhead and fill it with flox. Then you sand everything up nicely, bond the white backing plate to the bulkhead with flox made from one of the clear epoxies, drill a […]
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