Engine Oil Cabin Heating

he nose oil cooler takes air from a NACA scoop installed on the left side of the fuselage. This opening was prelocated by the factory, and cut and installed it during Head Start much like the other NACA scoops. Then the supplied ducting was cut, the upper section was covered with foil tape and laid […]

Routing Brake Lines and Bleeding Them

Again, mounting the brake pedals is pretty simple. It is worth pointing out, though, the idea that Frank gave us of making sure that the pedal mounting blocks are far enough to the outside of the assembly that is no play in it. It is mounted with a slight gap above the keel. This is […]

Canard Rear Attach Points

In this section we need to make a attachment point on the back side of the canard to accept the torsional load of the wing. In order to do this we made a jig out of 1″x4″ covered with aluminum foil tape to make 3″x3″ pads to later accept a bolt. First we sanded the […]

Install Nylaflow Tubing for Rudder Cables

This section is simple enough, just take 3/16″ nylaflow tubing from 6″ aft of the attachment point on the pedal assembly, through the carbon beam, sweeping gently up to the top of the gear bulkhead and extending slightly out the back of the firewall. The only real trick here is that the recommended method of […]

Center Spar Set

Center Spar has been set, and Master Cylinders installed! 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 suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis aute iure reprehenderit […]

Mount Master Cylinders

OK, here’s the deal on Master Cylinders, and a real no holds barred data dump. Very important, shouldn’t be a big deal. The only thing is this the modification mentioned below in 10.5.3, where we pulled the pedal mounts to the very outside of the pedal cross tube, which pretty much centers the pedals. That’s […]