The Mission:

I am building an airplane. I really can't tell you how weird it sounds to me to hear those words in my head as I type. I am keeping this blog as an adjunct to my written log, which is required to comply with FAA requirements for Experimental Aircraft construction. My son Doug is my partner in this project. There are two goals: to build the best, safest, and yes, COOLEST, airplane we can, and to allow Doug to acquire some truly awesome experiences, not to mention building skills. Thanks for viewing.



How to use this blog

The most current post is displayed on this opening page. To access the older posts, click on the "Blog Archive" on the right hand side. The drop down menu is arranged by the month and lists the posts, by title and by date posted, in reverse chronological order.

I will arrange the hypertext links to other websites I find interesting better some day, but they are at the bottom.

If you navigate to my first post, there is a link to my luthiery pages. I miss working with wood. Aluminum is nice, but it's boring. Give me a highly figured maple any day!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Preparing to hang the engine

My technical counselor suggested that I build a stand to hang the engine on.  This accomplishes several things:  I can rotate the engine if needed to more easily access the bottom while fitting various parts, it compresses the Lord bushings on the dynafocal mount so I don't have to worry as much about the prop and spinner "sagging" when the cowling is installed, and I can get rid of the big wooden crate in the middle of my hangar



But first, Doug gets rid of some more of the blue vinyl on the fuse skin

I drilled holes for the dynafocal mount

The main gear will attach to this mount as well as the engine

This is the completed engine stand (two 3/4" plywood sheets, sandwiched, plus...)

(...a steel angle iron bar to further reinforce the plywood)
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