Category: Wings

Jury Strut Install

Here’s a nice little self-contained project, installing the jury struts on the wings. The lower strut goes half way between the top and bottom bolts on each wing strut. The lower jury strut fixes to the strut via a bushing…

Not Much

The sheep are back in the fields so summer is ending. Allen will soon return so the last couple of weekends I have are devoted to getting some things straight in the hangar. I’m bummed that I haven’t gotten done…

More Wrapping and the Propellor

Today I took a quick look at the angle of the wings and the flaperons at straight flight and there is definitely some adjustment needed. I will set that aside for when Allen returns next month. During the week I…

Flaperon Install Part 2

Now the mornings are getting cool I should be able to sneak a couple of hours and there before the real cooldown starts and we can get this project finished. Well, more finished, anyway. To attach the flaperons to the…

Flaperon Install

This morning was a bit warmer than last but still seemed good enough to steal a couple of hours to finish wrapping the wing struts. My order of white vinyl had come during the week so I nipped over to…