New Hanger!

Just before leaving for Oshkosh, I was able to move into a full T hanger. Ironicaly, This is the first hanger I ever saw at the airport. When I first saw a Vari-Ez at the airport and stopped to learn about EAA, it was parked in this hanger.

The Former occupant was kind enough to let me borrow his golf cart and trailer to move, so the move went quickly. Having the room to organize and not have to move tables and boxes around constantly has allready proven to be very helpful.

Covering bottom of HS

Tonight, I covered the other side of the HS. Took about 2 hours in
total. I used the Mark Langford method of applying fiberglass. I
marked an outline on a piece of 4 mill plastic of the size and shape
the fiberglass needed to be. Then I cut a piece of peel ply a bit
oversized as well as the fiberglass.

Not wet put the fiberglass on the plastic. The outline on the plastic
helps ensure you have the right shape when you are done. If you don't
do this, your fiberglass may get distorted and not dit as you expected.

You can then peel the plastic off carefully and adjust and add peel ply.

Bell cranks

On this Saturday, we stood the fuselage up vertical so that it would
be easierto drill the aluminum for the bell cranks. The bell cranks
mounted up fine, but we had to redrill the rear WAFs on the passenger
side and those are not ready for the bell crank installation.

Control sticks

I'm a little behind in updating the blog, so the next few entries
comprise the majority of july's work

The control sticks were created. The bottom of the sticks were
drilled with a jig to allow clearance for the AN fittings from the
aileron torque tube and the cable, then while still in the jig, the
hole where the AN fitting attach is drilled so the tube maintains it's
shape