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  1. cgwendling

    It's got wheels!

    I worked all Labor Day weekend to get my Avenger fuselage on wheels. I like it! It doesn't look like a boat now.:eek: I've only got cheap wheels on it now but they will be changed out for some Azuza's with drum or band brakes (mechanical type). I have to get the fuel tanks installed so I can...
  2. cgwendling

    Too tired

    I came home from work today and I decided to glue up the horizontal stab. and the vertical stab. Well, all was going great until I had to mix up another batch of epoxy to finish the vert. stab. Since the smallest batch I can mix up is two tablespoons, I wanted to use the rest up. So, I had some...
  3. cgwendling

    Disaster averted

    Well, I started to assemble my fuselage this last weekend and I ran into what could have been a major problem. On Saturday I had laid my full size plans on the work bench, covered it with plastic and installed all of my blocks for my jig. I cut my pieces that the plans called for and that night...
  4. cgwendling

    I have some wings!!!

    I now have two wings for my ride! Finished gluing in some of the little corner blocks and misc. braces today. I put them off because most of them were so tiny that I couldn't figure out how to cut them without having them explode. Finally had to resort to a backsaw, sharp chisel, and sandpaper...
  5. cgwendling

    What medium do you like?

    I'm building my airplane mostly of wood because it is a medium that I know how to use. My next plane will probably be a tube fusealage and wood wings. I don't have much interest in composite construction, just not my thing. I have very little interest in all metal construction. Don't get me...
  6. cgwendling

    Cleaning up an airplane

    Now I'm not looking for more speed out of my plane (it will probably go faster while on the trailer going down the freeway:p: ), but I would like to clean it up a bit. I was thinking of using streamlined strut tubing for the eight struts that stick out in the wind plus making something to...
  7. cgwendling

    Repairing an oops

    I was hanging my completed wing from the rafters a week ago and I broke one of the compression struts.:( It happens to be in a most tight spot to fix. The geodedic strips don't leave much room to maneuver but that isn't what is keeping me from fixing it. I don't know how to remove the strut...
  8. cgwendling

    Rigging ailerons?

    I have a question about aileron deflection and how it relates to adverse yaw. My plans show the ailerons deflect 17 deg up and 17 deg down. Now I have a strong feeling that this will cause adverse yaw in a turn which is undesireable to me. Now the question is, in what part of rigging the...
  9. cgwendling

    Hello to all

    A little background. I've had the flying bug for all of my life but only last year I decided to do something about it. I went and got my PPASEL!:D Since I live in the middle of nowhere, renting a plane is tough at best and the cost of owning a production plane is not the way I want to go...
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