Category: 30 – Fuselage

When installing the side skins and reinforcement ribs 5, I didn’t pay attention enough to the orientation of the flanges of rib 5 in relation with the flanges of the main gear mounting box. The result is a different orientation at the front and the rear. Furthermore a 4 mm hole is exactly under the head of the bolt and nut of the main landing gear, that made installing a 4 mm rivet impossible. 4 shims were designed to solve these issues.
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The landing gear cover skin has to be installed. According the plans this is done with rivets. However this removes the option to inspect the landing gear after a hard landing or during regular maintenance. There were incidents of cracks near the attachment bolts, those became visible after removing many rivets. Ideal would be a kind of inspection panel. However limited internal height limits the option of just installing rivnuts or nutplates. A smarter design was required and a prototype made.
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After some more sanding, filling, sanding and painting the spats could finally be installed.
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I don’t like the rubber grommet that covers the access hole to the valve. It’s annoying to install and has a black color which cannot be painted in a matching color. Custom made covers were designed and fabricated.
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A lot of work was done in the recent days to make sure the spats for the main wheels have a nice fit.
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This is one post regarding some improvements of the nose wheel spat, done in recent days.
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The spats in my kit are manufactured in 2020. Unfortunately the fit isn’t great and they will need a lot of work.
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