EAA Video: Blast From The Past, Part 1
Check out this great EAA archival footage of fly-ins from ’50s and ’60s. Campy, but cool!
May28
EAA Old School
May14
Foxjet ’77
EAA Video: Remember the Foxjet?
I ran across this cool promo video for the Foxjet ST600 while checking out my EAA feeds.
April22
ELT Installation and Testing
EAA Hints for Homebuilders: ELT Installation and Testing
EAA Tech Counselor Dick Koehler discusses the federal regulations and installation techniques for emergency locator transmitters (ELTs).
April20
Horizontal Stab Quality Control
After completing the horizontal stab, we performed a little QC inspection of the work we’d done, and despite being as meticulous as possible while squeezing rivets around the edge, we noticed that we had a few bad ones.
For some reason, while using the Cleaveland squeezer, we ended up with some “clubbed” shop heads, illustrated below from MIL-R-47196A, the military specifications for driven rivets.
April19
Vertical Stab Complete
Dad and I put in several hours in the shop yesterday, and a full day today, to finish off the vertical stab. After the primer had dried and we touched up the parts that needed it, we began by mounting the Cleaveland squeezer to the bench and setting the big AD4 rivets in the rear spar.
We’d had great luck with the bench-mounted squeezer while riveting the HS rear spar, and this time was no different.
