March 2017


Practice projects complete

All projects complete and quite a few lessons learnt!  Now waiting for the workshop to be signed off so that I can get started on the vertical stabiliser.  The hardest element so far has definitely…


Little steps

The practice project is a good learning curve and it is nice to see something fabricated that looks like an aircraft part.  Next step is to rivet the skins and figure out how to get…


Practice project started

I ordered the Vans practice project with the Empennage kit and have made a start.  Quite a bit of learning here with stiffeners requiring to be cut from angle material and the first tentative go…


Workshop

Workshop complete

It took a while, having demolished a disused boiler house, built benches, moved solar plumbing, built a new store for all the bikes, installed a compressor and created as much space as is possible. Should…