Door Pin Covers, Part I

December, 2009 Here we’re finally installing the door cover panels. Since we’re going to be looking to have the upholstery installed this spring we need to finalize some of these details so they can do their work. Here we’ve used structural epoxy to mount the attach points, which were previously made (see below). Because of […]

Interior Door Cover, Part I

The door cover panels are pre-molded by the factory. There’s a hump where the door handle comes through, but figuring out where exactly was a bit challenging, so I ended up needing to close up my first hole a bit. Also, stealing an idea from my buddy Andy, I used left-over foam with a light BID […]

Windshield Defogger Duct

The glare shield will also house a defogger for the pilot side of the windscreen that the bilge blower will power. There will be a separate diverter valve that allows the warm air to be diverted from the floor heat vents to the defogger. Defogger plenum and Deflector Defogger Plenum Mounted Final Panel and Glareshield

Forward Overhead Beam

One option that we saw and really liked on the factory aircraft (the Dash-5) at Osh Kosh was the interior hand holds like on cars. We decided to go with the VW style like in our Jetta because the color match is perfect, and they have a really nice retraction action. The forward overhead beam […]

Door Locks and Latches

The door lock that we used is from Aircraft Spruce, and allows us to use the same lock for the fuel caps and the pilot’s side door. The bezel of the lock was filed down so that the lock mechanism just protruded through the skin of the door. The hole was drilled just above the strake […]

Finish Installing the Beams

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.