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 …
We had a blast this afternoon at Crooked Creek field testing our new launch controller and igniter using SpaceShipOne and The Mean Machine !!! Click this link to see a short video clip of highlights from today’s launches.
Glassing the right fuselage side: Cut the fiberglass cloth to approximate sizes in preparation for glassing. Workshop temperature 25 deg C and humidity 53%. Squeegee’d micro onto the foam and brushed epoxy onto any glass or wood. Applied the 1st layer of UNI cloth oriented 30 deg to the longerons then applied the 2nd layer …
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In preparation for glassing the fuselage sides, and subsequent work inside the fuselage, I’ve built a rotisserie so I can rotate the fuselage on its axis. The fuselage is supported by one bolt through the firewall (I will have to repair this hole later) and one bolt through F-22 where the nose gear tube will …
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