We got a ton done yesterday. The biggest win was getting all the control surfaces balanced. we did the layup on the new balance weights on the ailerons. So those are locked in place with 2 plies of BID. We checked the balance, and they positively balance now. The balance is past the half wayContinue reading “Sunday Funday”
Category Archives: Instrument Panel
Vacation
The other half is insisting on a vacation, and who am I to object? So I won’t be back in the Garaggio for a little while. Today was filled with preparations to be gone for 2 weeks. So I didn’t get what I wanted to done, but we had a very productive week. So I’mContinue reading “Vacation”
Work Party Day 11; Unable to Focus
If you haven’t already figured it out, I am not a morning person. But I had to be today. Dick needed to head out to make a meeting in Wichita, KS. But with impending awful weather… Low ceilings, gusty winds, and heavy snow… He needed to make it out before the weather got in. SoContinue reading “Work Party Day 11; Unable to Focus”
Work Part Day 9; engine pulled
Dick is an expert welder and I need my engine mount repaired. If you go way back to the beginning of this blog, one of my earlier posts was that in order to hang the engine, I had to cut a tube out of the engine mount. When Dick and I fabricated the engine mount,Continue reading “Work Part Day 9; engine pulled”
Work Party Day 4; mounting electrical components, welcome dick
Today was a solo work party for the time in the shop. I kept going with the avionics shelf. I started by getting everything back into place and verifying that everything still had proper fit clearance. I set the canard into place and also verified that we have clearance on the elevator torque tube. I’mContinue reading “Work Party Day 4; mounting electrical components, welcome dick”
Work Party Day 2; Weasels Radio Rack
I was too tired to post last night and we have too much for me to pound out a thorough blog post on what Weasel and I got done yesterday. Basically we checked for interference between the wiring harness and the canard torque tubes. There was some, not bad though. So we planned how toContinue reading “Work Party Day 2; Weasels Radio Rack”
The Village
Today is that day in the States where we gorge ourself on turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and a whole array of other delicious foods. It is also a day to surround ourselves with family and friends and enjoy the blessings of our lives. For those of us in the airline industry, or any other 24/7/365Continue reading “The Village”
Road Trip
Greg and I measured all of the strings representing wiring paths this morning and took notes. Then took the instrument panel and avionics shelf out of the airplane and gathered all of the components we needed to take to SteinAir for our 1:00 meeting. We met up with Jon and basically the rest of gangContinue reading “Road Trip”
String Theory
Today I got the rest of the GTN650 mounting bracket done and clecoed into place on the panel. After that, I turned to fabricating a shelf for the remote LRUs of the G3X system. LRU is line replaceable unit, which basically means it is an electronics box that can be mounted separately from the screensContinue reading “String Theory”
Homecoming gifts
Today was the last day of reserve, and I actually got some flying this time around. I flew back from Mexico City this morning, and it was the clearest I have ever seen it over Mexico. We got to see a lot of the desolate Mexico country side including a expansive tour of the “BarrancaContinue reading “Homecoming gifts”
the Garaggio 