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Category: Fairings

Fiberglass 101

June 15, 2012June 15, 2012 Ed 3 Comments Empennage, Fairings, RV10 Build
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Fiberglass is something that I have never worked with before. The RV10 is an aluminum plane, so what do I need fiberglass for? Well, there

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Emp fairings, part 2

June 16, 2012June 17, 2012 Ed 0 Comment Empennage, Fairings, RV10 Build

Just a quick hour and a half to sand down the first coat of micro, and apply another thin coat to fill a few low

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Emp fairings, part 3

June 17, 2012June 17, 2012 Ed 0 Comment Empennage, Fairings, RV10 Build
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A little more sanding, a bit of trimming, and the tips are permanently riveted to the elevators and the top of the rudder. The rudder

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Fun with foam and fiberglass

June 18, 2012April 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Empennage, Fairings, RV10 Build
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Just a quick night tonight. I formed some plugs for the HS tips. These plugs are just to give form to the fiberglass sheet that

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Fairings, continued

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 Ed 3 Comments Empennage, Fairings, RV10 Build
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I pulled the foam plugs out of the HS tips. They came out without much trouble… the packaging tape did it’s job preventing the epoxy

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Fiddling with the fairings

June 25, 2012June 25, 2012 Ed 1 Comment Empennage, Fairings, RV10 Build
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Well, I got a tracking number for my wings, and according to the FedEx website, I should be getting a little package tomorrow! In the

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