A log describing the construction of an experimental aircraft. The Velocity XL is a 5 seat canard.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Main gear
The main gear comes only temporarily installed with the fast build kit. You have to take it out, do all the heavy duty triax reinforcement lay ups and reinstall permanently. I hated this part. It turned out fine, but took a lot of what Andy Milin refers to as "fit and file" and my wife and I refer to as "jiggery pokery". This is a highly scientific term for getting things to work by a combination of techniques. You will find that fiberglass airplane parts seem to vary from side to side, part to part and even day to day. A builder friend had some good advice:
"Think of it as creating a sculpture of a plane".
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