Took a break from working on the wing. Made up the firewall from scratch this weekend.

No need to have the plane at the flying club now, can just launch straight out my back garden

79B Beannie mod root rib in position.jpg 79A Std root rib in position.jpg 79 Std root rib against Beannie mod root rib pattern.jpg Having now finished the design of the beannie mod root rib,made up the wooden form bloks to produce the 2 new root ribs.Net result is 60mm extra head room and an extra ...

Just finished fitting all the rear/fuel tank channels within the wing frame. As this is plans build am doing the first of 2 upgrades.This first upgrade is to extend the height of the cabin roof from flat to curved.Known as the Beannie Mod. Have cut the wooden form bloks to make these new wing root r...

Fitted (wing assembly still at cleco stage) 4 flaperon brackets and the rear upper strut bracket.

Hennie here are a few photos let me know if you needing more info am glad to help,just shout.

Hi Hennie, can do, but I have not got all the brackets fitted for attaching the slats. It was just a dummy check to see if everything lined up as I had a small issue when making the slats,slat attachment brackets ended up 10mm off where they should be. Looking at the dummy assemble its going to be v...

76A Nose-Rear ribs fitted.jpg 75C Trial fit flaperons.jpg 75A Trial fit Slats.jpg Right wing assembly progress, starting to look like a wing now,long way still to go to complete the wing frame work.Sure the left wing will come together quicker once I know how it all fits together. Still got to make...

Tonite got the left spar nose ribs fitted,drilled and cleco in place. now for the rear rib sections.

Next major step completed, both Main Spars assembled and riveted. Next is to convert my huge pile of wing parts into WINGS vhpy vhpy vhpy. Unfortunatly I cant mate the front and rear fuselage sections until the wings are completed as the distance between the front and rear wing mounting points is re...

73A Cabin Frame.jpg 73 Cabin Frame.jpg It has been awhile but the build has progressed all be it a bit slow due to pressure of work which then pays the bills so I try give work a bit of time as well :lol: Here are the photos of the cabin frame which has been the most DIFFICULT part to make so far,b...

Now its startin gto get interesting, looking more like a plane everyday now. Cant wait to get to join the front and rear sections of the fuselage.

Morning All, sure this was asked before but I can tseem to find it.
Can someone give me contact details in JNB area where I can buy 2 tubes 500 x 5 and approx cost.
Thx in advance
Raymond

Making steady progress on the front fuselage section. Cabin side frames completed,now to fit them in the correct position on the floor skin section.

67A Cabin floor with seat and bottom channels.jpg 67 Cabin floor with seat and bottom channels.jpg Started assembling the cabin floor with the seat channel and bottom channel fitted. Now to make up the cabin side panels, couple of parts I still need to make before I can assemble side cabin panels,t...