June 24th I got out flying, finally, after quite a hiatus due to inclement weather. The days events didn’t go as planned to say the least. The following is an account of what happened that day after I had some time to organize my thoughts and go over things in my head. When I first […]
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Time got away from me and I never blogged during the summer about my flying. It was a very busy summer. I got out flying ass much as I could and loved it as usual! Missed some flying time during the summer as my girlfriend (at the time) and I went to Ottawa for a
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Though my plane according to the plans was complete, Monday I truly completed my aircraft! Outside of the plans, based on club members experience, I added support wires to the tail. You can see them installed in the featured image above. The reason for this addition is that a known flaw in the design of
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Tuesday was the day everything came together and I my aircraft was fully assembled. Previously in the week Peter & John balanced my plane to determine how much weight was required. The aircraft was quite tail heavy. Need to remember that as you move away from the center of gravity (CG) the effect of 1lb
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It was great to get back working on my plane again. The time flew by as I think this was the longest I have worked in one session in a long time at about 2.5hrs. During this time I finished covering one side of the fuselage. From the pilots perspective this was the front left
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Tuesday was another 2hr building session, which is about my typical. When you look at what I got done to the uninitiated you may think to yourself “It took you that long to do what?”. In order to install the rudder and elevator push rods correctly it takes time. The first step is to figure
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Last Tuesday I got to work on my plane again and been so busy since I’m only now getting around to blogging about it. The first thing we did was install the wire for the tail wheel. This involved first bending the tip of the wire into a 90 degree angle and ‘sanding’ the wire
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Saturday I got over to Peter’s for another building session. We started by going over what Peter had done. In order to not ‘waste’ my time on some of the easy but tedious stuff Peter will do some of it for me when he has a chance so that those things don’t hold us up
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