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Hoses
Happy new year! Yesterday I got a box of hoses from Tom at TSFlightlines. First and foremost, I want to say that it was some of the greatest service I’ve had from any supplier during my project. A couple weeks ago I sent an email expressing interest, and Tom immediately responded. A few back and…
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Big Cut
Today I spent a few hours in the garage working on the canopy. Goal for the day was to make the big cut. I started by putting the canopy on my work bench and screwed down some scrap wood to hold he canopy in place. The whole cut took about 15 minutes, mainly because I…
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Canopy
Last weekend I started on my canopy. I did the initial trim cuts to get rid of the clamping flange. Here’s the canopy on the benches with the rear flange marked for cutting. I cut all four sides off. Today I spent the whole day working on the canopy, trimming it to fit. Here’s the…
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Canopy latch
Yesterday my friend Mina came over and helped me out with some canopy latch work. We started by fitting the rear latch to the fuselage. This is the latch spanning the width of the fuse. We clamped it in place and then back drilled the holes through the fuselage bulkhead. Here you can see the…
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Canopy latch
Today I spent a few hours working on the canopy latch. I’m going with a latch from JDAir that is a nice machined aluminum. I started by measuring and marking the side skin for the latch cutout. It’s slightly different from the plans due to the thickness of the latch. I then measuring and aligned…
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Canopy frame
Today I spent some time working on the canopy frame side rails and ribs. Here’s the frame attached and pivoted forward to check the clearance. I then got the side frame pieces out and prepped those, along with the attach brackets for the frame. Here you can see the side frame drilled and clecoed to…
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Canopy hinges
Today I spent most of the day working on the frame fitting and hinges. I started out by clecoeing the skin to the frame and forward fuselage. I’m using a strap to tighten everything down. Once I got everything lined up, I tightened the strap and some clamps to get the skins to line up.…
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Canopy frame
Yesterday I spent a few hours working on the canopy frame components. I started by cutting the plastic bushing blocks for the canopy frame hinges. I then fit the blocks into the sub panel. Then installed the top skin I then got the canopy frame out and prepped it by drawing a line down the…
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Hung the Engine!
Yesterday I hit a huge milestone. After many weeks of prep for this moment, I have officially installed my first airplane engine! It was more difficult than I thought, but everything lined up great once I figured out the technique. First a huge thank you to my uncle for helping me out, definitely needed his…
RV-7 N890GF 