Friday Peter & I got some more sheeting done on the top of the wing. The first piece was the curved middle piece sheeting the middle of the wing. In order to do this we cut a piece of 3/32“, 4″x62”, to make W-SH-2 to go to curve out to between the middle of the ‘enclosing’ […]
Building Aero 3D Day 33 & 34: Top Sheeting Read More »
Wednesday the wing was flipped over and we went through the same process as last time to get the two pieces of sheeting on.
Building Aero 3D Day 32: Last Session Mirrored Read More »
Wednesday we started the process of sheeting the wing. Prior to actually sheeting we went over the whole wing doing some sanding, removing any excess glue gobs, rough edges, etc. making sure everything was finished as best we could. This is to make sure the sheeting sits down properly and eliminate as many covering issues/bumps
Building Aero 3D Day 31: Sheeting Wing Begins Read More »
Sunday we focused on getting the ailerons glued together. This aircraft has some very nice sized ailerons. 🙂 We needed to figure out how to determine the size of the 1/4” x 1/4” balsa stringers we’d need, and which piece to start with. Ended up temporarily putting in place the WT1 (1/8” Ply) wing end
Building Aero 3D Day 30: Ailerons Glued Read More »
Saturday, Feb. 22nd, I cut out the pieces for the aileron. Peter & I then did some looking at the airframe and figuring out what went where… as even though the pieces are labeled you do not actually have any labels in the pictures provided and need to figure out how things go together based
Building Aero 3D Day 29: Wing Bolt Plate & Ailerons Started Read More »
Wednesday we finished prepping the firewall and reinforcing it. First step was getting two triangle blocks cut close to size as will sand the tops to match the form of the top of the fuselage. We then mixed up a batch of epoxy for the next steps.
Building Aero 3D Day 28: T-Nuts & Firewall Reinforcement Read More »
Monday, Peter & John came over and we shifted focus to the fuselage, specifically getting the firewall situated. I obtained a user Saito FA-100 for my engine and it came with a metal mount. Based on the diagrams provided the engine needs to be side mounted with the muffler down, this means the head of
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On Feb. 16th we started by cleaning up some previous tasks which involved: Cutting off the excess from both ends for the leading edge Sanding the ends of the leading edge and all spars to be flush with the side of the outer rib As a sample you can see how the ends looked afterword
Building Aero 3D Day 26: Sanding & Dowels Read More »
