Citabria Update – March 19, 2017
Scenic flight over Cobourg and Rice Lake areas today.
Verified that the 0.25″ drill bit touches both pieces of wood when pushed through the 0.25″ hole in each of the forward landing gear bulkhead hardpoints. This ensures that the front and aft landing gear bulkhead holes will be aligned once the aft bulkhead holes are drilled. Removed the temporary blocks used to position the …
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Preparations to install the forward landing gear bulkhead completed. Four 8″ x 8″ squares were cut out of plywood. The squares were hot glued to the forward landing gear bulkhead to ensure that it will be located 8″ forward of the aft landing gear bulkhead and to assist in aligning the 0.25″ drilled holes between …
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The recently taped corners of bulkhead F28 were cut and sanded. A glue gun was used to temporarily position wooden blocks on each fuselage side 5″ from the firewall. These blocks are used to accurately position the aft landing gear bulkhead. The aft landing gear bulkhead was sanded to fit and centred in position against …
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Shop temperature at 25 deg C and humidity 30%. BID cloth was cut to size to tape the aft corners of bulkhead F28. A small batch of epoxy was mixed and applied to the tape and to F28, the longerons, and fuselage sides where the tape is applied. Once the tape was applied then Dacron …
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