The wheel and gear leg fairings make the airplane way more aerodynamic–you can count on it adding about 15 knots to the cruise speed, so not installing them really isn’t an option. I was hoping we could wait until after …
The “main gear” is the legs/wheels on the left and right, as opposed to the single wheel in front, and this is what we worked on first. The gear leg mount is already bolted in the fuselage, so the first …
It’s time to mount the landing gear. The stand the fuselage has been on for the last ~1.5 years is only about a foot of the ground, so to be able to insert the gear legs, we needed to lift …
See the post here for our entry on starting the windscreen fairing. Kelly and I epoxied all those layers of fiberglass cloth in one session. When we were done, I realized we didn’t do a sufficient job getting all the …