Trimmed the fiberglass edges around the right fuselage side with the Dremel tool. Sanded the fiberglass flush with the edges. Sanded the entire fuselage side then rotated the fuselage to begin work on the left side.
Testing various mixtures to determine the best combination to use for igniting our hybrid rocket engines. Here is a short video demonstrating the 5 samples being ignited. It looks like the mixture for sample 4 or 5 would be most effective.
Solo circuits tonight with x-wind practice before starting to train a new tailwheel student. Join me for some laps around the field with this video. If you are interested in transitioning to tailwheel and flying a Citabria then click this link to check out The Tailwheel Conversion Handbook.
After some inspections and minor maintenance in May completed and some good weather arriving today, we were able to fly some circuit practice this evening at CYPQ. Here is a very short video of the Peterborough Airport from the backseat office of the Citabria.
St. Thomas More Collegiate, an independent school in Burnaby, B.C, will be the first Canadian high school team ever to fly a payload in a European sounding-rocket student competition. Canada’s CanSat team call themselves STM-CanadaSat. In CanSat competitions, the payload (aka CanSat) is required to fit inside the volume of a typical soda can and …
