Category: Cabin Top

I’ve been both looking forward to this section, and dreading it. It represents one of the last big structural components of the plane, but fiberglass

The cabin top is now (roughly) fitted to the fuse. With a new set of cut-off discs for my die grinder, and a nice belt

More of the same tonight. I cut the openings for the rear windows to size, and did a little more trim work on the windshield

It’s been two months (to the day), but progress is once again being made! From some of our other posts, you may have gathered that

Lots of sanding tonight to take off the large bumps and other high spots from the fiberglass molding process. There are some pretty rough spots.

Tonight I sanded down and smoothed out the micro I put down last time. Once sanded down, I could see places that still had voids,

Once more, same as before! This time I started by taking a bit of material off the back of the cabin top, as it was

As the title says, today I enlisted the help of my very pregnant assistant to set the cabin top on the fuselage. The rear of

Tonight I finished match drilling the bottom of the door openings and then counter sunk all the needed screw holes. I went a tad deeper

Instead of the stock windscreen that comes with the kit, and the rest of the transparencies in the plane, I went with a window kit

Like the front windscreen, I am using windows from Cee Bailey’s for the rear windows. As I received them, they were pretty close, but did

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m going to be using the Aerosport overhead console in my build. It’s a single piece of carbon fiber, very stiff,

Tonight, I started by deburring all the holes that were match drilled in the fuse for the cabin top attachment. Then I deburred all the

Quick night tonight. I got all the holes in the cabin top countersunk, and the holes in the fuse sides dimpled. The only difference from

I couldn’t wait to pull the seals off to see how the edges looked, so I missed that on the video. But I can tell