Tag: Fuselage
EP 4.29 Installing Windscreen Part 1
Rudder Installed
The rudder has been mounted! I’m quickly wrapping up work on the back end of the plane. The rudder was fairly uneventful to mount, though I anticipate substantially more work to get it hooked up…
EP 4.28 Fiberglass Canopy Skirt
Elevators, Vertical Stab
The elevators were mounted and hooked up. This was not without an issue with drilling, in which the holes in the elevator horn came too close to the edge and had to be fill welded shut for another shot at drilling. The vertical stab was also first trial fit, then mounted to the deck of […]
Mounting Tail Surfaces – A Start
Well, being done with the canopy for the time being, I need somewhere else to point my efforts, and mounting the tail surfaces here in the garage has been recommended by many a folk. The idea is to follow the instructions as if this were final construction, mounting the horizontal stabilizer, then elevators, hooking up […]
Windscreen Fairing
With the windscreen glued on to the plane, I now needed to create a smooth fairing. Arguably more intense than the rear fairing, there was some criteria I had to hit: I dove head first in, and after 6 hours of epoxy, glass, and related supplies, I wound up with what I felt was an […]
Rear Skirt Attached
After three-four sessions of primer and sanding, the skirt was finally in a condition where I felt comfortable attaching it. The underside of the skirt required white primer, where it would show, to match the cockpit, but black primer where attaching to the canopy and side skirts. (The black primer is the first component of […]
Canopy/Windscreen
The canopy, windscreen, and side skirt junction wound up about as clean as I could have asked for, highlighted here in the photo.
Rear Skirt Gets a Coat of Primer
I love how the wet paint highlights how uniform the skirt actually is.