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Try #2. This one is not totally by eye. We figured out a good reference as shown. tail fairing square.png Here is the flat pattern for the physical mount. I'll have a couple of 1-leg #8 nutplates installed. The 4 tabs will bend back 90 degrees and rivet to the fiberglass. The long tab will have a wi...

Just be glad that Sikorsky didn't buy them.

I'm laying up cone #2. Q/A didn't like the alignment so I ripped it out and doing it over. I'd take a picture but it looks exactly like the first cone layup picture.

Art,
I always have my wheel pants on. Maybe that would keep your fairing off the brakes? Is the fairing tight against the bottom of the airplane? My top pin sticks through the floor and the bottom pin through the wheel pant.

BobDz wrote:Cool trip.

Thanks Bob! We waved as we went by.

Here it is removed. Only one ply so not very stiff. molded cone.png I removed the bottom rib. Mostly sanded off the rivet heads and then drilled. rib removed.png Here is my hack job. Came out terrible. hack job.png With the male mold inside, I'm gluing the cone in with 5 minute epoxy. five minute ep...

Initial layup for the tailbeacon fairing. I wet sanded the 3D printed mold until it was smooth. Then I painted it, sanded some more, and covered it with thin plastic packing tape. I waxed the tape for release and laid up one ply to start.

Excellent - another one is "it will be done next year." Believe it long enough and sooner or later it's true!

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Over 5 hours flying today. We crossed the 250 hour total time mark.

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