Interior Door Cover, Part III

Here are a couple of quick shots of our doors with the covers installed and the experimental stickers applied. Door Open Door Closed 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 […]

Door Pin Covers, Part V

Here you can see our newly polished and installed door locking pin covers. Jerry does nice work with the metals. 🙂 I think this pretty much finishes up the “prepare for interior upholstering” work. Finished door pin covers For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut […]

Installing the Door Seal

I opted not to use the factory door seal, since I didn’t think theirs looked very robust, and I’d heard of a lot leaky Velocitys. I ended up getting seal from Avtek, and I really like it. It makes the airplane much quieter, and our hose test seems to indicate that they seal, but we’ll see […]

Door Pin Covers, Part IV

We brought the fuselage back to the hangar today. The airport was great about letting us store it, the canard, and the cowling in the back of the FBO’s hangar to give us a little more space, and not have to worry about overspray (and about painting in our hangar generally). Jerry worked on installing […]

Door Pin Covers, Part III

Here we’re finally getting to potting the door pins into attractive shapes under the pin covers with flox. Not only do these look much nicer, the flush finish keeps them from goring your butt when you’re getting in and out of the airplane. Jerry did a really nice job of fitting the pins to the […]

Window Frames, Part II

Here I’m working on the windshield frames. Unlike the main windows, my stock parts seem to fit OK, so I’m just trimming them to fit, with a slight lip under the removable overhead switch panel, and two screws at the bottom like the mains. The copilot side needed just a bit extra glass to give […]