After yesterdays session you can really get a sense of what my aircraft will look like (without the wing anyways). I started my day with covering the hatch cover. I wanted to break up all the white on the fuselage and since Peter and I had the same idea for what color should be used
Building 4 Star 60 Day 45: Canopy Installed, Servo Test & Landing Gear Read More »
Tuesday was on the shorter side (1.5hrs) but accomplished the two goals that were set out for the evening, cutting the canopy and securing the pilot in place. The first task was to cut the canopy. This may sound like a simple task, but the thing to remember is that I only have one and
Building 4 Star 60 Day 44: Canopy Cut & Pilot Installed Read More »
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
Building 4 Star 60 Day 33: Tail Wheel & Invasion Stripes Read More »
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
Building 4 Star 60 Day 32: Hinged Ailerons + Tail Touch Ups Read More »
Tuesday I was able to get in some more covering and visiting. I started by covering the ailerons, which as you can see from the pic above I did in green. Kevin stopped by for a visit to see how things were going and a bit of a chat. It is nice to see guys
Building 4 Star 60 Day 31: Ailerons & Servo Hatches Covered Read More »
Saturday was another great building session. John stopped by for a visit to check out how things were coming along and contrary to the ‘hack’ job he voices I believe he thinks I’m doing a pretty decent job :). Thanks to Peter for trimming off the excess of the top left covering I didn’t have
Building 4 Star 60 Day 30: Left/Center Top Wing Covered + Ailerons Read More »
Tuesday I was able to work on my plane for a couple hours. Prior to covering the top of the wing I needed to cut the covering that was over the servo hatches. After cutting the covering into an ‘X’, corner to corner, I turned the wing back around and ensured that the covering is
Building 4 Star 60 Day 29: Wing Servo Hatches Exposed + Top Covering Read More »
Saturday was the first building session of the new year after Christmas holidays. John stopped by and showed me more about covering. He also brought his woodpecker over which is a device used for making tiny wholes in the surface when you are covering. In my case I used it when covering the wood sheeting
Building 4 Star 60 Day 28: Covering Bottom of Wing Read More »
