The wires arrived last friday.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Trimmed the tip of VS
Used cutters and vixen file to trim the VS tip (0.5 inch from the rib). Tried the fiberglass tip, and it fitted almost perfect.
The wires arrived last friday.
The wires arrived last friday.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Finished drilling the VS skin
Finished drilling the skin. When I took the skin off again, everything looked OK, no holes in the wrong place. Need to drill the two fore-most holes at the tip, but I have to take the skeleton off the jig first.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Drilling the VS skin
Finished marking on the jig and the ruler. Transfered the markings to the skin and started drilling.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Markings for drilling
Continued marking lines and holes and flutings for the drilling process. Drilling holes in the skin is next.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Visit to Praha, Czech Republic
In June we (Olaug and I) visited Praha, or Prague, in the Czech Republic. One morning we went to Kbely Aviation museum just outside the city center. It is a very interresting museum with lots of very rare aircrafts (several one offs in the entire world), but it is also very crowded with aircrafts, making it difficult to take pictures.
I have includes a few pictures here. One geared radial Walter Mira II-R (95 HP). A few very nice light aircrafts from Zlin. The only two seat Me-109 in the world today (Me 109G-14). An Me-262. One La-7, probably the best Russian WWII fighter. One Yak-17 (the resemblence to the Focke-Wulf Ta-183 and Me P1101 prototypes is rather striking).
I have includes a few pictures here. One geared radial Walter Mira II-R (95 HP). A few very nice light aircrafts from Zlin. The only two seat Me-109 in the world today (Me 109G-14). An Me-262. One La-7, probably the best Russian WWII fighter. One Yak-17 (the resemblence to the Focke-Wulf Ta-183 and Me P1101 prototypes is rather striking).
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Further adjustments and trimming of skin
Adjusted the jig/skeleton more precise. Added another fastener to hold the fwd rib. Trimmed the skin further. I think I have cut of 5 or 6 slices on the tip now to make the overhang not too large.
Started marking the rivet lines for drilling holes. This is actually a bit time consuming, and requires attention, since it is not possible to see where to drill when the skin is on. I have to rely on markings on the jig and the ruler.
The VS skin seems to be cut and bended much more precise than the HS ones. All that is needed of trimming here is to cut off material at the tip. And Vans told me they were not able to cut/bend the HS skin with more precision than they did? Somehow I find this a bit strange, but who am I to tell?
It is good to be building again. To see that all the pieces starts to form larger components of a plane that I am going to fly sometime in the future, is a strange feeling sometimes.
Started marking the rivet lines for drilling holes. This is actually a bit time consuming, and requires attention, since it is not possible to see where to drill when the skin is on. I have to rely on markings on the jig and the ruler.
The VS skin seems to be cut and bended much more precise than the HS ones. All that is needed of trimming here is to cut off material at the tip. And Vans told me they were not able to cut/bend the HS skin with more precision than they did? Somehow I find this a bit strange, but who am I to tell?
It is good to be building again. To see that all the pieces starts to form larger components of a plane that I am going to fly sometime in the future, is a strange feeling sometimes.
Adjusting the skin on the VS
Riveted together the VS skeleton. Postioned the skeleton in the jig and and started to adjust the skin
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