Monday, February 3, 2020

Fabric covering of landing gear opening

We are in the process of covering the area around the landing gear, primarily for the purposes of prevening air infiltration around the openings for the Grove landing gear.    We first attached a flat piece that will sit right above the landing gear (using Superflite U500 adhesive) and shrunk it in stages until nice and taut.

 Next we started working on the two angled side pieces.  These pieces are much trickier because of all the strange shapes and protrusions, and everything seems to get in the way (including the floor for the baggage area)... but we have an approach that seems to be working and have made some good progress.  The fabric for those side pieces has been cut to shape and mostly glued into place. We still need to take out some wrinkles before shrinking the fabric.
Hours: 7
Fabric work around landing gear area
Fabric work around landing gear area II

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