Tuesday was all about covering and a special visitor. Stephanie stopped by to check out what I’ve been up to. Even though she has been seeing the pictures/posts along the way I believe she gained a better appreciation of what’s involved and how the plane looks (especially the size of the aircraft). Stephanie also helped […]
Building 4 Star 60 Day 27: Visitors & Covering Read More »
Yesterday I worked on my plane for about 2 hours (as is about the typical session length). When I first arrived Peter filled me in on his 2hr morning session. He got the wholes for the wing screw down bolts made. He glued the two laser cut 1/16″ plywood wing hold down plates to the bottom
Building 4 Star 60 Day 26: Wing Bolt Holes & Covering Wing Read More »
Had another great building session with Peter today. I started with covering the other wing tip in green, which again took a lot of time and due diligence! I was able to do this one by myself as I remembered what I learned from working with Peter & John while covering the other tip, bottom of
Building 4 Star 60 Day 25: Fairing Blocks, Covering Wing Tip, Patching, & Sealing Read More »
Yesterday Peter and I put in another solid 2 hrs working on the plane. John came over as well to check out how things were going. I am getting a bit ahead of myself though as Peter checked to see if the angle of incidence on the wing was correct and in his email, I quote
Building 4 Star 60 Day 24: Incidence Angle, Fin Glued & Covering Read More »
Had a great building session with Peter last night making further progress on the wing and started the covering process. In the picture above you can see how Peter cleaned up the sheeting so everything looks nice and smooth giving a better/easier finish. When gluing the fillers he mixed a special substance in with the
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I am no graphics artists; however, I had an idea in my head as to what I wanted for my site icon and image on the landing page of my site. So I got Stephanie to take a picture of me in the shirt I wanted to wear striking a couple different poses. The idea
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Yesterday was a bitter sweet two hour building session at Peters. It started with gathering the sheeting for the wing and determining which pieces for which section. I then measured where they have to go and determined I needed to cut them in 14.5″ sections to give a little overlap on each end for potential
Building 4 Star 60 Day 22: Wing Sheeting & Deck Read More »
Yesterday we had a productive 2 hr building session. I love seeing my project slowly come together and take on more and more of a ‘total plane’ look/shape. The evening started with checking out the ‘rig’ Peter created for drilling the holes for the dowels into the dowel support blocks. Because every planes wing is
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