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!

Friday, August 24, 2012

Rear skirt

While we were waiting for the front fiberglass to harden, we did more work, refining the shape of the rear skirt

microballoons


Once the first layer of microballoons hardened, we sprayed some black paint lightly, sanded, and came back with aeropoxy to fill the low spots


As you can see, the rear skirt is Sika'ed to the canopy

Later, we will transition the fiberglass skirt to the aluminum side skirts...

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