Bungee Fairing

While performing the flight testing we do some minor improvements. One point is a fairing around the bungees. Firstly I wanted to protect the fairings against dirt and oil. But …

Tire Mounted

  Today we did the (hopefully) final mounting of the landing gear. It looks great. Tomorrow the next tire and then the Rebel is ready for the first excurstion outside …

Tire on rim

  Today I mounted the tires on the rims. This was one of the sometimes occuring tasks that take much longer than expected. The Dico tire of my kit did …

Right Gear

  With the experience from the left side, the right gear was a straightforward task. Drilling the axle with the stainless steel drills was easy this time.

Safety Cable

  This shows the safety cable for the landing gear, put inside the tubes. The first time I made a nicopress connection. It worked ok with the cheap swaging tool …

Tailwheel done

  All parts for the tailwheel installation are done. One final thing is to tighten all bolts. The bolts where missing. I need to order the bolts and have to …

Tailwheel Delrin Spacer

    This is a spacer (from Delrin) to fix the tailwheel spring. Since I added a doubler (FUS-30) at the tailwheel position, the AN6 bolt is short and a …

Swivel Tail wheel

  The tail wheel delivered with my kit is permanently connected, there is no handle to disconnect it from rudder during moving the fuselage. To overcome this I plan to …

Hanging Free

  To prepare installing the landing gear, I removed the construction table and fixed the fuselage on the ceiling of the garage. Looks cool. Probably the first “flying feeling” for …

Hard Stuff

  This was hard work: Drilling two holes in the axle (in the alu block)  needed approximately 10 drills. Being used to aluminum this is a different experience. In the …