Saturday, March 26, 2011

Filing! And I don't mean my taxes!

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When you build a fiberglass airplane you do a lot of sanding, with metal airplanes, you file! I used the paper patterns to cut my side panels out. Now I'm just filing them down to final size.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Now making side skin patterns.

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I started making patterns for my side skins by using construction paper. This should allow me to get the bottom to line up properly. The panel between bulkhead F10 & F12 is per plans. The panels between the F6 seat back and F10 can be done as one, two or three pieces. I will be doing mine using 2 pieces of skin.