Side Note

Here are a few photos of my dad's Quickie as a side note:

1216/15

The aileron is temporarily attached and bondo'ed (gosh, I hate that stuff). Holes are drilled for pop rivets, then bondo is popped loose and sanded off. Rivets go in with wet flox. All the tubing for the controls will go in tomorrow.

12/13/15

Aileron is finished. Time to mount this sucker as soon as the epoxy cures!

11/19/15

Here is the aileron ready for A2's, A5, and A10 to be bonded on the right aileron.

The CNC cutter has been resized to be large enough to cut the winglets (ooooooooooooo fancy), and that means we can finally get these chunks of foam out of the way.

8/14/15

Wow. I'm halfway through instrument flying to get my Private, then I'm ready for the checkride. And I've still been working on the Long!

The aileron trough on the Left wing was layed down today. 3 plies BID with an extra ply over the aileron hinge attach points. I was able to get it finished before I went to work.



Also, in order to fill my X-Country requirements, I flew to Mineral Wells to meet my dad for lunch. I also swung by to see his Quickie project.















His is a little closer to flying than mine.

7/31/15

Aileron cut!

Looks a little more like a wing now.

7/28

Took a break from life and went to Oshkosh! All in all, it was pretty great. I even got Burt Rutan to sign my hat. I had heard that Oshkosh had become over commercialized in the recent years, and I could see how that was a reasonable claim.