The mods keep materialising... Sunday afternoon was spent designing a new firewall solution for 181. After the crap ordeal changing out fuel hoses recently and the lack of easy access a better option
Thanks; still need to run it through relevant FAR's before production. Re' adjusting Bing needle position; not going to even bother... If it aint broken, why fix it? But if you want to experiment and
Away up high in the friendly sky!! Some finalisation on the engine cowling today... adjusting the radiator ports and shifting the side louvres into place to match actuals. Also set the flap bar and b
Passing rearwards today through the wing sections, adding mass balance to the ailerons and bellcrank window, adding in the flap hinge assemblies and finalising the speed kit... gaping and recessing c
Black Op's on Baker Build 181 have not been secretly happening for the past 18 months. Rumours, just rumours... nothing to see here... just some routine wing flange dressing on a computer that does n
Empennage is finally done; ended up rebuilding the entire section due to annoying original surface issues, and now it is better than ever. Apart for a couple of inspection hatches, muffler, and main
Today the very back end of Baker Build 181 received some final tweaking around the rudder foil belly and top fillet edges... The inspection plates went in and the tailwheel arm got updated and set in
Thanks Pete! An easy day for a change; main wheel, original Classic tail wheel, muffler, and a few renders to check how it all looks... that's a wrap now on all the outside stuff; summer has started.
Hi, does anyone have some assembly images of mounting up the factory tail wheel on the classic mono? John has fitted the assembly's mounting block to the interior bulkhead, however it is not aligned
Thanks Duncan; yes correct... thought about it a bit more and John's standard of assembly; rather than error he would of had a reason and purpose to flip things upside down; probably control cable al
With the 3D aero model now complete its onto a new chapter as mechanical and ancillaries come into the fore; and fruit has arrived straight off the get go. After reading and hearing about so many iss
Some further thoughts today upon this. With a focus toward keeping things as simple as possible a fast solution to more easily employ was brought in after a discussion with another Europian... The la
Thanks, much appreciated... can i have your permission to copy your mod into the mix? Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=509443#509443
Today repositioning of the brake caliper was given a quick review after string lining in the rudder cables; and it revealed that John had indeed flipped the classic tailwheel block upside down to gai
Jon, thanks for your thoughts there however needs correcting.. Position of LG08 components are not altered; the over center locking affect on extension is actually marginally improved. Pin LG04 is mo
Today the numbers on mod-xx were run through the trap. Short story 50% reduction in component stress and force required at the operator end. Both factory and mod-xx had the same parameters applied al