Off we go !

It’s been a while… a long time…  after finally getting all the stuff I suppose things got kind of quiet in here. Well… I have to admit I was having so much fun building that writing about it became...

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Flying Surface Practice Project (Part 2)

Time for the first capital mistakes, and I had a few in a row. I somehow understood that as of .040 material had to be countersunk instead of dimpled. That kind of fit with the spirit of trying every technique in this...

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Flying Surface Practice Project (part 1)

Third project and probably the most exciting one. This thing actually looks like a mini wing. It has a spar, stiffners, ribs and most of the techniques to be used on the real airplane are needed to complete this little piece. Cut...

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Toolbox project

With the mobile phone stand finished it was time to tackle the second practice project. Van’s offers a practice project where you make a toolbox, using various techniques which will also be applied to the aircraft. The Toolbox project from Van's Aircraft Most...

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First Practice Project

It’s Time! Time to work with some metal, time to squeeze a first rivet. This has been a long time coming and while you are reading this I’m already a bit further. Just can’t help myself… I’m having fun...

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Tools!

It’s been a while since my last update and I’m a bit behind on posting so there will be a number of updates in short sequence. Having been more or less done with the workshop there was still one major item missing…...

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Compressor Time!

Woohoo... we are definitely getting closer. it's September but feels like Christmas already as i had an interesting unboxing to do. Picked up my brand new low-noise compressor from HBM Machines in Holland. A crate to unpack ! If you...

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Preparing the workshop

Building an airplane is not a small undertaking, and I mean that very literally. For those builders who are building in a hangar or have a large garage at home, space may not be as much of an issue as it is...

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