Cozy Experimental Aircraft Update – January 7, 2016
Traced the triangular plywood piece, onto the foam side of one of the seat braces and used a chisel to carefully remove the foam from that area. This was repeated with the second seat brace.
Traced the triangular plywood piece, onto the foam side of one of the seat braces and used a chisel to carefully remove the foam from that area. This was repeated with the second seat brace.
Trial fit the fuel valve to the newly fabricated bracket. Trial fit the fuel valve and bracket assembly to the triangular plywood inserts. All parts appear to fit well together !
Thanks to Jason for fabricating the fuel valve bracket ! He used type 1100 aluminum, cut the plate to size then used the template to mark the holes and the shape. Drilled the holes, cut to shape, and then made the two bends.
We are excited to have a SpaceShipOne model rocket and look forward to launching it at a STEM event in the near future as a continuation to our successful SpaceShipOne paper airplane event. SS1 Paper Airplanes: SS1 Model Rocket: SpaceShipOne was the first manned non-government spacecraft. Both SpaceShipOne and its carrier ship White Knight , were …
The Dacron fabric was removed from the seat brace. The piece was trimmed using the band saw and sanded to size.