Step 1: Trimming the
foam blocks and cutting the cores |
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8/13/05 - 8/14/05 Templates Used flashing
as the material for the templates. Made a copy of M-17, and glued
it to flashing with spray adhesive. Then I made rough cuts with a
jig saw, and fine cuts on the band saw. Sanded, etc. |
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8/14/05 Canard Yeah, the canard is cut!
It's the end of a long day, but it was very rewarding. |
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Step 2: Making lift
tabs, inserts, jigging cores, laying up the shear web, and installing
lift tabs |
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9/5/05 Canard The foam for one of the
canard cores is off a bit. This is either because I made a mistake
when cutting it, it deformed in the heat of my garage (summer in
Florida), or this was an existing edge that was off already. I'm
not sure which, but I'm inclined to think it was the heat. |
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9/5/05 Canard A closer look at the gap. |
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9/11/05 Lift tab inserts |
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9/11/05 Lift tab inserts Dremeled
depression in canard for inserts. |
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9/11/05 Lift tab inserts They fit nicely
in the depressions. |
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9/3/05 Canard Canard is positioned on the
work table for the shear web layups. |
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9/18/05 Shear web layup End of a long
day. The shear web layups are done, and the whole thing is drying
with peel ply over everything. |
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Step 3: Jigging and
Bonding the canard sections together |
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9/24/05 Attaching LE Cutting the trough
in the center LE piece, so it will fit over the lift tabs. I used
the Dremel for this. |
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9/24/05 Bonding sections together
Everything's micro'd in place, and I'm using the weights to maintain
alignment. |
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9/24/05 Alignment Very good alignment,
which can be seen pretty well here. |
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Step 4: Spar cap layup |
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10/1/05 Spar cap layup Taped off the
canard with plastic. |
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10/1/05 Spar cap layup Making sure the
layup is the correct depth. |
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10/1/05 Spar cap layup The completed
layup, before peel ply. |
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Step 5: Applying the
bottom skin |
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Applying the bottom skin. |
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Applying the bottom skin. |
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Step 6: Installing hard
foam blocks for elevator hinges, the upper spar cap, and the upper skin |
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4/1/06 Upper spar cap Getting ready to
bondo blocks in place. |
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4/1/06 Upper spar cap Cutting fishtail
off. |
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4/1/06 Preparing to drill out foam for
foam inserts. |
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4/2/06 Top spar cap layup. |
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4/2/06 Peel-ply over top spar cap layup. |
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4/2/06 ...another shot, calling it a day. |
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4/23/06 Before doing the top skin, I
wanted to put a NAV and glidescope antenna on the canard. Dug
trough with dremel, laid down coax with baluns, and prepared to install
the antennas. |
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4/23/06 |
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4/28/06 Sanded top spar cap to conform to
the template, and then installed the antennas. |
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4/28/06 Close-up of the soldered
antennas. |
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