Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Wed Mar 01, 2017 8:29 am

We fit some instruments last night.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:15 pm

Another view:
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Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:47 pm

Adam back riveting the turn needle mount:
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Completed:
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We also got the transponder tray installed.
Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:45 pm

Another trial of our panel:
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Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby WaiexN143NM » Thu Mar 16, 2017 11:48 pm

Hi bryan,
Looking good! Ur coming along! U'll be flying this summer.

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:38 am

Thanks Michael! We are definitely trying to hammer this thing out.

To all of you who told me my instruments were mounted too low on the panel - you were right. For the CDI, and more surprisingly for the breakers and cigarette lighter plugs we had to hack the crosspiece. What I decided is to make .040" doublers not only to reinforce but also to mount the throttle, trim, and mixture. In the dial-a-trim kit they give you a big hunk of extrusion.

Here Adam is laying out the bend lines for the doubler.
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Then over to brake-a-saurus.
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I certainly have the technology to calculate bend radius, but I taught him the shop way. I prefer that way myself. Carefully measure and bend scrap, adjust, and when it is figured out do the real part.
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You can see all the scrap parts. The final part nicely nests between our subpanel and crosspiece.
Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:55 pm

Radio tray aft mounts:
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The radios should be good when we pull G's. I have one angle for each corner and will probably ditch the gnu vise in favor of a flush #6 screw.

The little angles will rivet to the tank cover. I will join the angles with a screw and nut.
Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby WaiexN143NM » Fri Apr 07, 2017 12:09 am

Hi Bryan,
Make sure u have enough room behind the radio and tpx trays for d sub pin connectors and coax plug ins etc. ref the fuel tank. keep plugging away, always good to see you and adam making progress!

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:03 am

Michael,
The picture is not a good perspective to tell, but I do have room. As you can see my trays are wired and I am well within the rivet line for the tank angles. I measured before, and I'll have less than two inches but it should be sufficient.
Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Darick » Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:55 am

Nice engineering Bryan...always good to see how others are designing their panels.
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