More giant pieces of fiberglass that need to be endlessly cut, sanded, and fitted. Yay! The cowl doesn’t seem too bad, but maybe I’m just desensitized after doing the doors and wheel fairings. Anyway, not too much noteworthy here. We …
This weekend was finally the time to mount the engine. The fuselage, in its current position, would require the engine hoist to be on the driveway to mount the engine. Unfortunately, our driveway is uneven and has a decent slope, …
With the landing gear installed, fairings aligned, and us ready to mount the engine, it was time to put the fuselage on the gear. We used 5 people to lift it on the workbench originally, but since then, we installed …
Our name came up on the hangar waitlist at Paine Field. We’re not ready to move to the airport yet, but if we turned it down, we’d go back to the end of the list and wouldn’t know when we’d …
Long delay since the last post–sorry about that. We went down to Arizona on vacation, then had family in town, so work has been slower than normal. We’ve continued to work on the fairings. The main wheel and leg fairings …
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 …