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Brent s RV-8 Project N784DE
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Date:  7-19-2009
Number of Hours:  3.10
Manual Reference:  9-2
Brief Description:  Canopy Skirt #7

-More trimming of the skirt around the aft end.
-In a previous session in drilling the canopy to skirt holes I noted that I had let the front end of the left skirt slip down and therefore I didn't have edge distance on the forward most hole.
-Sanded the aft junction between the two skirts (L/R) and the area where I needed to add material on the forward end of the left skirt.
-Drilled and cleco'd a piece of metal to join the left/right sides as the most aft point
-Layed down mylar on the canopy edge and on the rail where I would doing the layups.
-Layed up 3 layers of fiberglass on the outside of the aft junction and 2 layers on the left front skirt
This was my first composite work since I left TASK Reserach some 15 yrs ago but it came back pretty quick and this stuff is mostly cosmetic. I was a pilot at TASK not a fabricator so that's why I'm building a metal airplane not a composite one : ^ )
Good session and fun to do something new (well sorta new).
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Top pic is the junction that I will join and the bottom is where I let the front of the skirt get low

Top pic is the junction that I will join and the bottom is where I let the front of the skirt get low

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Here's the first ply on.

Here's the first ply on.

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Here's the peel ply.

Here's the peel ply.

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