KitLog pro

Powered By Kitlog Pro v2.0

Home of the Spodplane
' style=
Date:  8-15-2021
Number of Hours:  1.80
Manual Reference:  18-13CC
Brief Description:  Fuselage top installation

This was a challenging layup. It would have been far easier with the fuselage inverted, but I can't be bothered just for this.

Finished up gaps in the fillet with wet flox.

With the trusty mirror-on-a-stick wet out 2 x BID on peel ply, and transferred to tape the entire aft face of F28 onto the fuselage top bottom up to the drip rail. Discover later one ply should have overlapped the drip rail. Later. Maybe.

On the outside, taped the top of the fuselage top to the forward face of F28 with 1 x BID. This is not mentioned in the plans, but I'm assuming it is one of those occasions where taping is assumed. This overlaps 1" onto F28 outboard of the nose door flange, and over the flange inboard.

On top of this, apply 3 x UND. This is supposed to overlap the fuselage sides 6" with the first ply, but my fillet is in the way, so first overlaps the fillet 1", and the others are 1" shorter each ply. Peel ply overall.

There is bare foam showing from my repair to the top of the F22 brace, so fix this now with 1 x BID.
' style=

Maybe I should have given the camera a mirror-on-a-stick also...

Maybe I should have given the camera a mirror-on-a-stick also...

' style=

UND over the top.

UND over the top.

' style=










Copyright © 2001-2024 Matronics. All Rights Reserved.