The last phase of my homebuilt project has begun; filling out the paperwork for the FAA airworthiness inspection. I thought it may be helpful to document my progress through the inspection process for other who may be about to begin the same process. You should begin this process when you are 60-90 days away from [...]
The following update has been received from Chapter 90 member in absentia, Tom Kuklo…
Basic floor pan with wing support columns
Front view before nose structure attached
Setting up landing gear truss structure, rear spar mounts on top of
small vertical columns,just above pony clamp
Cabin assy to date, engine is supposed to snuggle just in front and above rear [...]
I’ve been mainly working on the panel. Here are a few shots of my progress so far.
The blank spaces next to the small instruments are reserved for future expansion.
And here’s a close up of the flight instruments including my $100 lift reserve indicator.
The LRI is a non-standard size so it was inserted into a instrument [...]
My Rans S-6ES Coyote project is coming along nicely. I am getting ready to begin covering the remaining tailfeathers. I have covered the elevators already. The covering is like a slip cover, you must actually disassemble the elevator and re-assemble it inside the covering material. You then make a tool to insert a brace [...]
Two weeks ago I received my Rans S-6ES Coyote kit. It came in two big boxes. It took about a week to inventory everything (well almost everything, I’m still not done.) The picture below is after one day working on it. The front fuselage is welded steel tube, the rear fuselage is aluminum tubing. There [...]
