So finally got done what I personally consider the worst part of the build which was painting the wings. I hate painting anything and it was no different on the wings. But after a couple of weeks, I finally got them done between all my other weekend obligations. In order to get this done as […]
Despite life and all the things going on with work, family, and what have you I have managed to get my wings covered. For this process I used Uncertified 1.8 oz Decron fabric I managed to pick up from Aircraft Spruce. I originally had a roll that came with the other set of wings I […]
The next step was to get the wings fitted to the fuselage. I was able to do this in my garage but had to do it one wing at a time. So in general what I did was take down one wing, do all the fitup for that wing then swapped it out for the […]
So I built the wing fuel tank a while back but for some reason I never got this posted. I built it out of .040 aluminum. I was going to initially weld it but after doing some practice on some scraps I determined that I as was not to proficient at welding that thin of […]
Wings are now considered complete at this point – at least until I am ready to cover them. In order to complete I put a couple of coats of Helms Urathan satin varnish. Initially, I started using cans of spray paint but they did not do far. Switch to using Harbor Freight gravity feed spray […]
After picking up a bunch of straps to hold the leading edge in place while gluing I got to work finishing the leading edge. I was very nervous about this process and did a bunch of research as to how others were doing it. I saw a lot of different processes some of which were […]
After reading a bunch of other blogs and forums I decided to take the initiative and add foam inserts to my wing lead edge nose assemblies. I decided for me, the easiest way to do this was for me to use my CNC Co2 laser cutter. After a few attempts, I was able to get […]
Using the idea from Iron Designs I am using Aluminium. At first, I was just going to bend and wrap the Aluminium around the trailing edge of the wing and that was that but I found the Aluminium I was using seem not very ridged between rib centers. That being the case I then decided […]
Using CNC Router I cut out all the leading edge nose pieces out of 1/4 plywood. The parts turn out very nice with perfect alignment across the set. After cutting them and ripping the leading edge strip needed I glue 1/4 square spruce strips to the mounting edge to be used to glue to the […]
Feature image shows wing with Aileron cut out – complete on both wings. Ailerons complete except for leading-edge covering.