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Spinner gap fillers trimmed to fit.
A little more needs to come off (marked in red) and I’m going to have to add some material back between the edges of the gap filler and the spinner. Must have gotten a little carried away with the sander.
Back to fiberglass work. Yay. Not.
Right horizontal stabilizer tip fairing closure in progress.
Left horizontal stabilizer tip fairing closure in progress.
Vertical stabilizer tip fairing closure in progress.
Right horizontal stabilizer tip fairing patch marked for trimming.
Left horizontal stabilizer tip fairing patch marked for trimming.
Right horizontal stabilizer tip fairing patch trimmed and ready for glassing in place.
Left horizontal stabilizer tip fairing patch trimmed and ready for glassing in place.
Vertical stabilizer tip fairing trimmed and drilled in place.
Vertical stabilizer tip fairing drilled up to final hole size.
Vertical stabilizer tip fairing patch layup commencing.
Vertical stabilizer tip fairing patch layup happily snuggled under its peel ply for the night.
Horizontal stabilizer tip fairing patch forms ready for glassing.
Horizontal stabilizer tip fairing patch layups.
Now, what could be in that box…?
Lots of giant staples to remove before the unveiling.
There it is: a brand-new IO-390.
A thing of beauty…
Lots of fittings to install on the rear case tomorrow prior to hanging the engine on Thursday.
Final coat of pinhole-filling resin, partially sanded.
Final coat of pinhole-filling resin, sanded and masked for filler primer.
Final coat of pinhole-filling resin, sanded and masked for filler primer.
First coat of filler primer applied.
First coat of filler primer applied.
Aft edge masking paper and one layer of electrical removed. The fairing aft edge will be sanded to the width of a single layer of electrical tape.
Aft edge masking paper and one layer of electrical removed. The fairing aft edge will be sanded to the width of a single layer of electrical tape.
Aft edge now re-masked for additional filler primer.
Aft edge now re-masked for additional filler primer.
Several coats of filler primer later (sanding between each coat, of course), the final application is drying here.
Following the final sanding, all masking paper is removed.
The last layers of tape have been removed and the canopy fairing is done, at least so far as I’m concerned. This will be more than sufficient for Phase 1 testing.
The final work on the fairing will be down to Jonathan McCormick’s shop guys at Evoke Aviation.
The last layers of tape have been removed and the canopy fairing is done, at least so far as I’m concerned. This will be more than sufficient for Phase 1 testing.
The final work on the fairing will be down to Jonathan McCormick’s shop guys at Evoke Aviation.
