The Crack

What no crasher! To busy flying? He needs all the practice he can get if he doesn't want his arse whooped by the mighty Chalster AGAIN!!!!

Fus Moulding and other bits

Had a spare day so started work on a Fus, ballast tube, joiner boxes and joiner. As you can see from the photos there is a number of diffent mould part required to make these parts. parts will be moulded in the new oven at approx 150 degrees C for one hour. All Part made from pre peg. Trying a new layup for the fus using large amount of UD.

Harry

Is that 45 degree bias UD carbon I see? and if so what is it for.

Oven looks the dogs... Just the job. Who gave you that Idea?....

Make sure it all says FUN and I will look forward to seeing the results soon.

Up to temperature and off we go!

Last night I added the internal fans to the oven, they were wired to run continuously and made a massive difference, the oven got to temperature much quicker and stayed there for longer when the lights went off.
The oven was tested at 30 degrees then ramped up to 50 degrees, which took no effort really, there is plenty of room for higher temperatures for the future if needed.
Perfect!!!.... the plan is to make a tailplane this weekend to test every process, as some of the building techniques are slightly different to before. Check all the equipment at each stage is functioning as it should, then head down and get on with knocking some of these beauties out!!

R&G is here

The last awaited delivery from R&G is finally here!!

At Last We Are Ready!!

At last the oven is now ready, first tried and a steady increase in temperature from 14 degrees C to 25 degrees in about 20 minutes.

here some photos from back in the day when i had some free time......... You know you want one.