Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Monday, March 22, 2010



Backing the mold with heavy 825g/m² FG


Filling with sand/epoxy mixture




Laying up the mold, 1x80g/m², 5x165g/m², 2x280g/m², all FG



Starting to brush on the tooling epoxy

Sunday, March 21, 2010


Brushing on a tiny bit of wax around the plug where the epoxy has been sanded

Building the dam, installing alignment pins

Perfect fit between plug and parting plane

Sanding the epoxy ridge level with the parting plane

Plug removed from the parting plane

Mold for the V-mount

Tailgroup unbagged. Layup: 25g/m² FG over 8g/m² CF non-woven, 6k tow as spar

Squeezing splooge in the gap between plug and parting plane

One tailgroup is in the bag


Fitting the fuse plug in the parting plane


24h later...

Everything is in the bag, foam beds under and on top of the wing


Wetting out with foam roller, flatten the disser with a hard roller

Saturday, March 20, 2010



50g/m² FG skin, 80g UD-carbon at the wingtips

Peel-ply on the top mylar, carbon-kevlar-fabric on the bottom



Mylars ready for cloth and epoxy

Preparing the mylars for painting


Preparing the leading edge strips. I use carbon sock split lengthwise in 2 pieces, attached to the core by transfer tape


Fitting the small fuselage fairings to the waxed wing section

Average core weight per wing half: 18,5g

32 panels

Small wing section to be used as male mold for the wing saddle

Foam blocks for 4 wings and 4 tailgroups

Making templates

Sanding...

Brushing on thin epoxy
Attaching the ovalized boom

Shaping the plug


Three layers of 12mm MDF, outlines already cut






















Design in Rhinoceros 3D