Jun
18
2020
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...
Nov
10
2019
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...
Nov
09
2019
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...
Nov
01
2019
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...
Oct
28
2019
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...
Oct
27
2019
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…...
Sep
28
2019
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...
Sep
22
2019
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...
Aug
29
2019
It seems
there is a never ending discussion on whether to fly nose wheel or tail wheel. Having always trained on the stereotypical
Cessna, it seems the obvious thing to fly nose wheel aircraft but then why is
it that most taildragger...
Aug
24
2019
What on
earth drives a person to build his own airplane? Is it safe? Why would you do
that? Well the answer is simple and at the same time it isn’t. Different people have different motivations.
Most people love to fly. Some...