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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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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The majority of this work was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. However, the bedding of the hinges to the fuselage was left to us. This was done while the plane was inverted to complete the strake close-out work, and involved micro-glass in the hinge recess and then bedding […]
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The door hinge installation was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. The only portions of the work left to us was counter-sinking the screw holes, bonding the hinges to the doors with structural adhesive, and fairing the hinge to the inside of the door and filling the door screw […]
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