As part of my build, I have been doing some CAD work in order to CNC cut many of my parts. Because of this, I have basically ended up drawing the entire aircraft – at lease up to this point. I plan on completing this as a move forward with my build. I am using […]
Completed first wing main structure – this does not include leading edge or the completed aileron. Starting the next wing – will finish this one up to the same point of the current wing before completing nose and aileron assemblies (most of the parts are complete for the second wing).
Completed the build of the Spars (4). For now, I have not added the spacers for the attachment brackets, especially the rear ones. I was thinking of adding them later after adding/mounting the Ribs but I believe I will attach the front ones since the Ribs will not need to “slide” onto them. While building […]
I realized I was going to need a new bench for my build to fit the wing assembly and eventual the welding/assembly of the fuselage. Using the basic EAA bench design but made it bigger and wider. Basically built to benches, tied them together with a couple of brackets and put both on a set […]
I decided to build all ribs to include a customized version for different sections of the wings. I have built special aileron ribs, aileron leading and trailing ribs, and a few others. All custom parts are built from Laser or CNC cut parts (like the larger gussets, K blocks…)
Started building the ribs – I can see this is going to be a slow process with wait times between setting glue and staple removal
Making gussets for ribs using a home-built CO2 laser cutter. Cut out a set of Gussets for each rib as I built them. I saw no reason to pre-cut all of them when it only took a minute to fire up the laser and create another set :). Designed the gussets on Fusion 360 using […]
Using printed supplemental drawings from Iron Designs I build my rib jig. After using Fusion 360 to configure/layout the profile for the ribs I cut out the top curve using my CNC Routing machine. A layered of plexiglass is used on top of the drawing. Also, 3D printed locking widgets were added to hold parts […]