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Category: Gear Fairings

Starting the landing gear fairings

April 20, 2014May 12, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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Since I’m in the fiberglass mindset, I’m choosing to start working on the landing gear fairings. The first step is to make sure the wheel

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More pants

April 21, 2014May 13, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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After splitting the pant halves that were epoxied up last night, I built a jig to help me align the wheel pants to the plane.

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Drilling pants

April 22, 2014May 13, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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After the literal blood sweat and tears (and curse words) in the initial setup of the jig, and with 9 operational fingers, I continued on

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And again on the other side

April 24, 2014May 13, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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The epoxy pads I had injected into the wheel pants last night were cured, so I popped off the front half of the pants and

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More pants stuff

April 25, 2014May 13, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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I started tonight by installing nutplates on the wheel pant brackets. After that, I started working on smoothing the joint between the left pant halves.

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Repeat on the right

April 26, 2014May 13, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build

The first half of the night was spent repeating the process of cutting back the wheel opening and starting the work on getting the pant

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Nose wheel pant

May 1, 2014June 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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The nose wheel pant construction is very similar to the main wheel pants. I started by cutting down some aluminum blocks that are used as

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Nose pant and leg fairing

May 3, 2014May 14, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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With the rear half of the nose wheel pant installed, I needed to fit the front half to fit around both the gear leg and

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Finishing nose leg fairings

May 8, 2014May 14, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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With all of the trimming done on the nose leg fairings, I just needed to rivet in the hinge that closes up the rear of

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Gear Leg Fairings

May 11, 2014June 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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Today, I got the gear leg fairings cut to shape. I started by making sure the fairings didn’t have any twist in them with a

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Leg fairing hinge

May 12, 2014June 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build

Tonight was all about the leg fairing piano hinge. I got it match drilled, deburred, countersunk, and riveted in place for the left leg fairing.

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Right leg fairing hinge

May 13, 2014June 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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Same thing as yesterday, but with the right gear leg fairing.

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Wheel pant nutplates

May 14, 2014June 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build

Nothing too exciting tonight. I just spent the evening match drilling, countersinking, and riveting on nut plates for all 3 wheel pants.

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Aligning gear leg fairings

May 22, 2014June 30, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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Tonight, I worked on installing the left side gear leg fairings. These are the fairings that smooth out the airflow over the gear leg itself.

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Intersection fairings, part 1

May 28, 2014July 10, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Finish Kit, Gear Fairings, RV10 Build
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The intersection fairings is another place where I will be deviating from the plans. The instructions call for the intersection fairings to simply be screwed

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