On Nov 17th I finished covering the wing and started covering the tail of the aircraft. You can see in the image below that I covered the seems (joints) along where the triangle stock is in place helping support the stab to the fin. I do the seems first to help keep fuel, etc. from […]
Building Seamaster Day 37 & 38: Tail Covering Started Read More »
On Nov. 6th I finished covering the bottom of the wing by cutting two pieces to fit down the center, seen below. The first wraps around the leading edge of the wing and goes down to the edge protrusion and the other goes from bottom of the protrusion to the trailing edge where it was
Building Seamaster Day 35 & 36: Bottom Completed, Started Cover Wing Top Read More »
On Oct. 27th I continued work on the wing and it took me 2 hrs to get the covering of one panel done, seen below and I completed the other half on the 28th seen in the image above. The first steps are to get the piece of covering sealed all around the edges. This
Building Seamaster Day 33 & 34: Covering Wing Bottom Read More »
I’ve been doing more thinking on this and would like to actually get something off the ground this winter. Perhaps by scheduling an hour or two every week dedicated to working on it. First off, I have some things I need to explore as I’ve been reconsidering implementation. The 3 areas I plan to focus
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Yesterday I continued working on covering the ailerons as well as ensuring a fit between the rudder and elevator. Prior to fitting the elevator and rudder I needed to V the ruder and elevator so that when hinged to the tail of the fuselage side to side movement of the rudder would be possible as
Building Seamaster Day 32: Elevator/Rudder Fitting + Aileron Covering Read More »
On Oct. 19th I did some more covering, as will be the case for many sessions to come :). This particular day I covered the trailing edge of the stabilizer in caution yellow, seen above, which will be the color of the top of of the stab and wing, as the plan is to match
Building Seamaster Day 31: Stab Trailing Edge + Aileron Tips Read More »
Yesterday started with seeing what Peter had down, which was installed the hinges for the ailerons onto the trailing edge of the wing. This involved making a two toothpick sized wholes per hinge as well as drilling a hole for the toothpick into the hinge itself. Then the hinges were glued inside the slot with
Building Seamaster Day 30: Sanding & Covering Tail/Stab Read More »
On Oct. 15th I started by covering the portion of the top of the wing around where the holes for the wing bolt down bolts are, seen above. For simplicity I ran the yellow right to the trailing edge of the wing. Once covered I cut out the fabric covering the holes. After that I
Building Seamaster Day 29: Covering Wing Top & Aileron Tip Read More »
