Date:	7-14-2009
Number of Hours:	0.50
Brief Description:	Fairings-Etc Gear Intersection Fairings - Part 1
Since I'm building a *metal* airplane and not a fiberglass airplane by personal choice, when it was time to start the gear intersection fairings I was shocked and amazed that I was expected to use modeling clay and a make my own mold-in-place gear intersection fairings. I could probably get one side to look okay, but I *knew* there'd be no way I could make the other side look just like the first side. Since I'm considered compulsive about my need for ying/yang and feng shui in my projects, I just knew this task was going to be a huge pain in the tail feathers. I turned to the Internet as I so often do when faced with overwhelming situations, and after a few pokes at the 'ol Google, I happened upon the Fairings-Etc web site ( http://www.fairings-etc.com/ ). Bob Snedaker of Fairings-Etc makes all sorts of fiberglass bits and pieces and after a some of surfing around his web site I found that he is now offering upper and lower main gear intersection fairings for the RV-8 with the Grove Airfoiled landing gear! The parts arrived yesterday and I pulled them out of the box and slipped them on the gear and was simply *amazed* at the beautiful fit! They will require a bit of finishing and final fitting, but nothing major. Their shape is very pleasing and really tie the Grove gear together with the fuselage and wheel pants. I've attached a few pictures of the fairings as the look right out of the box. The Upper set of fairings are $130 and the lower set are $140. In my opinion an excellent investment in my RV-8 project. Not only will they save me a ton of time, but they will look 100 times better than anything I could have ever come up with. Run - don't walk - over to Fairings-Etc and order yourself a set today! You won't be sorry!