Jan 19, 2024     Aileron pushrods and slave struts       Category: Wings

Fabricated and installed the aileron pushrods and slave struts. Neat to see the joystick fully operational

  Jan 12, 2024     Javelins       Category: Wings

In keeping with my doing things the hard way, I'm going to mount my javelins by passing the flying and landing wires through them rather than lashing them in place. I made a jig to cut the required slots to pass the wires through. I took a measurement of the angle made between the landing and flying wires so I could cut the middle slit at the proper angle.

  Jan 07, 2024     Pitot static tube       Category: Wings

In keeping with wanting this to look like an airplane from the 30's, I made a pitot static tube out of brass. With annealing, it works just a tad stiffer than 3003 aluminum tubing. I'll cut the strap that mounts it when I attach it to a strut

  Jan 03, 2024     Heat sink       Category: Engine

My fiend and fellow Hatz confidant AC Hutson came for a visit and pointed out that I might have too small of a heat sink for my ignition modules. So I ordered a couple heat sinks like what are used in electronics and fashioned new heat sinks. Should do the trick.

  Dec 31, 2023     Wing walk       Category: Wings

I wanted to dress up the wing walk, so I made an aluminum frame for it. Got the wing walk stuck down then applied the boarder. I call it wing bling.

  Dec 23, 2023     Flying/landing wire tensions       Category: Wings

With the aid of a tensiometer loaned to me by AC Hutson, I mounted and tensioned the flying and landing wires. Having that tool took the guesswork out of getting all the tensions uniform. While doing so, I confirmed that dihedrals were equal, and nothing was twisting the wings. All in the process of rigging the wings. From what I see, everything looks good

  Dec 23, 2023     Strut switch       Category: Wings

To my dismay, I've come to the realization that I had the wing struts on the wrong sides. First indication was how difficult it was to get the right struts on. This should have shut down the wing mounting process, as they were not that difficult to instal prior to covering. Then I noticed that there was more dihedral on the right side than on the left. So I supported each wing with supports and removed the struts. Got it figured out which went where and sure enough, things were good with the world when I remounted them. I had mislabeled the struts. Just another example of me having crainiorectal inversions once in awhile.

  Dec 16, 2023     New wire lugs       Category: Wings

I had to make a couple new wire lugs to direct the rear landing wire through the two rear flying wires. As it set, they were touching.

  Dec 02, 2023     Mounted the wings       Category: Wings

I assembled a group of scoundrels and n'air do wells to help out with mounting the wings. Everything went quite smoothly. Total time to complete was about four hours, not including installation of the flying and landing wires. Was a fun day for all.

  Nov 24, 2023     Center section accessories       Category: Wings

While I wait for help mounting the wings, I installed all the accessories on the underside of the center section, including the fuel line blisters, fuel sight gauge and compass. Also ran the fuel lines down the cabanes