Mar 12, 2025     Post Interior Painting (Part 2): Canopy, Tail Cone, and Fuselage - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

The crotch, lap, and cover belts were installed prior to seat installations inside the cabin. The bottom and top panel covers were seamed and installed to the appropriate fuselage locations. The canopy fairing was sanded down to the desired shape (geometry/contour). The tail cone pieces were sanded to make sure their edges were fitted, and the tail cone nut plates were placed to confirm alignment. The UHMW plates were installed into the back of the cabin using pop rivets to prepare for the fuel tank installation.

  Mar 05, 2025     Post Interior Painting: Canopy, Tail Cone, and Fuselage - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Today, we begun sanding the fiberglass on the canopy, unmasked the interior, laid out the interior panels, reinstalled forward air vents, and match drilled the two tail cones.

  Feb 19, 2025     Canopy Carbon fiber and Empannage fairing (2 weeks) - (6 hours)       Category: Fuselage

  Feb 05, 2025     More Canopy Prep for Fiberglass and Epoxy - (0.2 hour)       Category: Fuselage

Today, we finished masking and prepping the interior for paint, remeasured and cut the tail cone piece to size, cut the fiberglass using the guide stencils and reattached the canopy.

  Jan 29, 2025     Canopy Fiberglass Prep - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Today, we cut and re-installed two screws that had been preventing the canopy from fully closing, chamfered canopy guides, cut and installed canopy foam, and masked the front of the plane for fiberglass layup.

  Apr 26, 2023     Ready for flight? - (2.5 hours)       Category: Wings

Wings aligned and attached for first time

  Apr 19, 2023     Post Hanger Trip - (2 hours)       Category: Rudder

pictured is two high density plastic parts that are countersunk and tapped, a team bending the canopy frame into place, and a team securing the flapperon torque tubes

  Apr 12, 2023     Baby's first steps! - (0.5 hour)       Category: Landing Gear

Today, we finished attaching our landing gear to the plane and our Van's RV-12 took her very first steps! Here are pictures of groups working on the rudder, attaching the breaks onto the landing gear, and the entire Aerolab team standing with our plane standing on her own!

  Apr 05, 2023     Greasing parts       Category: Landing Gear

Greasing part of landing gear assembly

  Apr 05, 2023     Frontal landing gear support       Category: Rudder