A line was marked on the forward face of the front seatback where each of the four shoulder harness supports are located such that the aluminum insert tabs would be centred with respect to the bolt hole and just below the layers of fiberglass reinforcement. Note: I measured the depth of the fiberglass reinforcement through …
JB Weld was used to secure the nutplates to the aluminum plates. These 4 plate assemblies will be used to fasten the front seat shoulder harnesses in place.
Last flight of the decade for the Citabria ! We flew around the Brimacombe ski hill …. Then over the Crooked Creek model rocket launch area … along the north shore of Lake Ontario between Wesleyville and Cobourg, over to Rice Lake, then Elmhirst, and back to CYPQ. Click here if you are interested in …
Using a 1/16″ thick aluminum plate, four shoulder harness bolt attachment plates (3/4″ width) were cut out after drilling the holes for the shoulder harness support bolts and the nutplates. The alumium pieces were cleaned with Alumiprep. Four used shoulder harness attachments were obtained from the Beyond Blue Shop and also cleaned. The shoulder harness …
The purpose of today’s flights was to adjust the elevator trim for improved pitch control since additional instrumentation (i.e. weight) was added to the plane. Today’s flight video. Altimeter3 was added to the Sky King to monitor parameters such as altitude, flight duration, maximum climb and sink rates etc. The centre of gravity was first …
