We’re finalizing all of the upholstery covers for the interior. Here I’m working on the side extensions to the false bulkhead. Once they’re done, I’m going to make a fiberglass cover from in front of the fuel tank vents back on to these “wings”. This will complete the interior pieces ready for covering. False bulkhead […]
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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 […]
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Here you can see we’ve glassed Triax over the stub-to-runner seam. I saw Andy do this and liked it. However, after it was cured I didn’t think it mated or “pushed up” enough on the seam to seal it. So I decided to retape the runner, lay some BID on there, schmooey across that to […]
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Well, from a couple of years of pushing my starter button, I find that it’s starting to have fine spider web cracks radiate from around the button. I guess we push too hard. Here we’ve made a support out of angle AL that has been notched to let the button pass through while resting up […]
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Here you can see we’ve added angled ducts to the sides of my NACA runners. I hope to do two things here, well, maybe three. I don’t want to suck rain (1) into the engine, so I was moving to the side discharge. I would also like to get better ram air flow (2) into […]
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Here you can see we’ve added angled ducts to the sides of my NACA runners. I hope to do two things here, well, maybe three. I don’t want to suck rain (1) into the engine, so I was moving to the side discharge. I would also like to get better ram air flow (2) into […]
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