Once you’ve located the baffles all you have to do is sand them down to exactly match the upper strake skin. You start by working from the outside in, so you get the bulkhead nearest the wing root to match the wing properly. Again, you have to repeatedly check that the wing still at the […]
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This is a fairly un-nerving step, unless you like cutting huge holes in very expensive things. Fortunately I’m beginning to really believe that I could fix a major fiberglass mistake. The instructions say to cut an opening 18 inches forward of the gear bulkhead (that’s an easy measurement to make on the outside of the […]
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This section was actually fairly fun, with the exception of the static ground line. The dimensions on our plane are a little different than in the plans as we purchased a different fuel cap. We go these nice brushed aluminum locking caps – Basically you first drill a hole through the inner strake skin and […]
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This is going to seem simpler than it is, and there’s no way around it. There’s a lot of sanding, fitting, removing, sanding, etc. that I simply can’t do justice here. Also note that after pleading with the factory, apparently I’m going to have to turn the plane upside down to do the final sealing […]
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Our canard tips came already assembled with our fast build wings. We first then mixed pour foam and filled the tips, and sanded them level when cured. 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 […]
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To prepare for the pilot side strake fitting, we leveled the plane fore and aft, then installed the pilot side wing. This was a bit of a trick, and to save our locking nuts we got some 1/2″-20 nuts from Home Depot. After much trial and error, with a little Vaseline the went in. We […]
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