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
Building Aero 3D Day 27: Firewall Read More »
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 »
On February 15th Peter came over and we furthered our progress on the wing. Prior to getting to work we needed to study the ‘instructions’ and looking closely at the diagram, Step 3 of the wing section, I could determine there were shear webs (WJ in the diagram) front and back of the main spar.
Building Aero 3D Day 25: Shear Webs Glued Read More »
Yesterday I did a little work on the wing myself. I trimmed off the excess of the remaining spar we glued in the previous session and then did some intial sanding of all the spar ends. The one end can be seen in the picture above. Today Peter and I glued the leading edge onto
Building Aero 3D Day 24: Leading Edge Glued Read More »
Yesterday we started by sawing off the main excess for the three spars glued into place during the last session. We then flipped the wing over. From here I we used medium CA to glue the 1/4” x 3/8” hardwood cut to 11/2” length pieces into the bottom slot of each set of W2 ribs to complete
Building Aero 3D Day 23: Bottom Spar Glued Read More »
