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Main gear wheels fresh out of the box.
Main gear wheels have been split here, their brake discs separated, and their bearing/washer/felt assemblies removed. Tires and tubes await installation.
Here the tires, tubes, wheel halves, and brake discs have been assembled, torqued, and inflated. The wheel bearings await cleaning, greasing, and installation.
Main gear wheels and tires are ready to mount on the airplane.
Canopy micro-switch installed. Wiring and adjustment will be done later.
Defog fans installed. Wiring to be neatened, obviously, and connected later.
Remaining canopy seals cut and ready to go. Main wheels and brakes on deck…
Gear attachment angles and upper gear braces being primed.
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.
Micro-balloons sanded to shape and forward edge of fairing unmasked for feathering.
Micro-balloons sanded to shape and forward edge of fairing unmasked for feathering.
Forward edge of fairing feathered to the canopy skin.
Forward edge of fairing feathered to the canopy skin.
Fairing edges taped for resin top coat.
Canopy skin masked for resin top coat.
Resin top coat applied; masking paper and tape removed.
