Pitts S1-SS Construction Gallery » 2008 » April 2008

Rolling out 30 yards of Poly Fiber for the elevators.	Heavy Duty Poly Fiber.	After gluing the leading edge. Note the new anti-chafe...	Poly Fiber's anti-chafe tape.	After shrinking and trimmig the trailing edge of the...
Anti-chafe tapes around the trim guide tube were tricky.	After gluing the leading edge of the other elevator.	Cementing the leading edge neatly into the gap between...	Cementing the leading edge neatly into the gap between...	Clamping down the glue on the trim tab rib.
Letting the glue dry before trimming and neatening.	Both elevators covered on the one side, and taughtened...	Elevators - second side covered, and drying.	Elevators - second side covered, and drying.	Switched the trim control around, as I had got it on the...
Cutting out ceconite to fir the belly, and clamping it in...	Keeping it light - using safety wire to keep the ends of...	Elevators, after first coat of Rand-o-proof dope.	Admittedly not the best rib stitching I've ever done. Not...	Better stitxching on the elevators.
After stitching and brushing on Rand-o-proof dope again.	I-Struts, as arrived from Raven.	Wheel pants from Raven. Still wrapped up on plastic.	Ribs, ribs everywhere. All the kit pieces from Raven for...	Wing tank and various boxes arriving from Raven.
Elevators - Surface tapes over the ribs done, and...	Another few coats of nitrate dope over the all the...	Wet coat of nitrate over stabilizer.	Spar stock and leading edges, amongst other bits.	Spar stock and leading edges, amongst other bits.
Nose bowl.	Hand grip and other bits of ply for the spar box, etc.	Various bits of additional hardware for bracing, etc.	Wing rib types.. all different.	This is how I figured the ribs looked, based on the ribs...
Raven Lower Wing measurements.	Raven Upper Wing measurements.	Close up of the growth rings on one of the spars.	Close up of the growth rings on the spars.	Rear lower spar root.
Rear lower spar root.	Rear lower spar root.	Laying out the ribs before installing them.	First view of the wing on the fuselage. Checking the spar...	First view of the wing on the fuselage. Checking the spar...
First view of the wing on the fuselage. Checking the spar...	Left hand lower wing.	Left hand lower wing.	Left wing hanging up on the wall.	Levelling the spar racks.
Spars on the spar racks.	Right hand wing.	Right hand wing.	Left wing: Glueing and clamping the spar butt doubler...	Right wing: Glueing and clamping the spar butt doubler...
Left wing: Glueing and clamping the I-strut doubler box.	Right wing: Glueing and clamping the I-strut doubler box....	Glueing and clamping the I-strut doubler box (West System...	Glueing and clamping the I-strut doubler box (West System...	Working out the angles for the drag wire attach blocks.
Bracing the wings for gluing the ribs.	Spar clamped to spar rack	Spar clamped to spar rack.	Glueing the drag wire support blocks.	Glueing the drag wire support blocks.
Typical rib glueing. Excess glue will be filed away after...	Clamping the end of the spars to the spar racks.	Glueing the drag wire support blocks.	I-strut box glued in place.	Glueing the drag wire support blocks.
Glueing the drag wire support blocks.	Typical glue join with West System epoxy before cleaning...	Clamping the right wing for rib gluing.	Second wing with ribs and drag blocks glued and hung up...	Contemplating how to buildign the top wing spar box.
Ran out of epoxy, so ordered in two new bottles of the...	Working out the order of ribs on the lower left wing. Top...	Tail feathers finally ready for spraying.	ACK A30 Altitude Encoder	Drying with the fan.

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