Today we took the fuselage off the ceiling lift hooks. We ordered the stronger 914 Root Tube which is necessary for our 117HP engine. It arrived with a ding on the corner, hopefully that is okay. Root tube comes in 3 parts that fit together.
Finish uncrating engine, put on lift cart – 1/16/17
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Today we completely uncrated the engine and put it onto a hydraulic lift cart that we bought at Harbor Freight. As a review, this is an Aeromomentum AM15 117 HP 1.5 Liter upright aircraft conversion engine based on a Suzuki car engine. Powering up the engine The engine came with an UltraGauge OBDII engine information…
Pick up new AM15 engine – 12/10/16
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Today we drove over to a local loading dock where we had arranged for the crate containing our new Aeromomentum AM15 engine to be delivered. Then we drove it over to my garage and opened the crate. We’re excited about doing some pioneer work with the engine. It is based on a Suzuki G15A…
Gas tank and Megahatch – 5/25/16
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Today we took a look at the megahatch we ordered from Recreational Mobility and we worked on the gas tank. We pressure tested the tank with water and some lime had built up on this tube. Must have been some type of galvanic corrosion that attracted the lime? Anyway, we needed to descale it so…
Taking the hull to get painted – 5/20/16
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Took the hull to get painted! We’re going to use this paint – white color on the trailer, ready to go! Rihn DR109 that was in the shop Laminate wing spar for the Dr109 – good to +/- 20 G’s Can we modify the Searey rudder to look like this?
R.Wing – Riveted leading Edge + L.Wing work 4/20/2016
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We had been short of SBL-44 rivets and ordered some more so now we could finish riveting the leading edge on the right wing. We also got the left wing drilled, deburred, and ready to rivet. Adding clecoes to the right wing before riveting Cut the tabs and screw to the wing rib inboard on…