Category: Gear Fairings

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.

Same thing as yesterday, but with the right gear leg fairing.

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

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.

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

The intersection fairings cured overnight, and now it was time to see how they fit. In two words, not well. As I mentioned in the

This afternoon, I started off by sanding down and smoothing out the micro I applied last night on the transition between the intersection fairing and

Tonight was a repeat of the other night, first forming the intersection fairing to the gear leg fairing with a little heat, then sanding the

Again, like with the pilots side gear, I sanded down the micro I applied yesterday. And with that, the landing gear fairings are pretty much

Today, I shot a quick coat of some high build primer on all the intersection fairing parts. Once the primer cured, I gave them a