Last we left the elevator it was half wrapped. So today we first covered the trim tab. We didn’t do the hinge since that would have required cutting the vinyl everywhere the hinge had a gap and that just seemed…
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Vinyl Wrapping 4
On to the horizontal stabilizer and installed on the tail. From there we started on the elevator but only had time to do (the easier) half. The electric trim on the other side makes it a bit more difficult. We…
Vinyl Wrapping 2 and 3
I don’t know how many vinyl update posts your boredom thresholds will handle but wrap sessions 2 and 3 continued with a, um, minor snafu. The second batch of white vinyl had arrived, enough to wrap the elevator and next…
Vinyl Wrapping Part 1
This weekend we had our first go at putting vinyl on the plane. The current goal is to have the back half of the plane completely finished, tail installed to spec, control cables attached, vinyl wrapped. Then we can forget…
Hand Brake and Wing Work
During the week, I had a comment on the blog about whether the steel bungee strap rod has enough clearance in a hard landing not to hit the engine mount. I hadn’t even thought about this as a possibility so…