I'd really like to hear from anyone reading this ... I opened up the comments to anyone with or without signing in to whatever account thing this site has. Just a few words of "hello" or "having fun reading" or even "I have a hanger and towplane and a trailer you're welcome to use." I'm just curious who all is reading.
So I caught up on some other pressing stuff around the house & office, so I decided to do a little assembly work this morning. Notably, I installed the elevator control line pulleys sometime earlier this week while it was raining. 
Now, I also made the control linkage part to connect the sliding tube to the elevator itself. Well, um, there is no elevator per-se. I haven't yet bent the 3/8" tubes to make up the trailing edge for the elevator. Despite this, the elevator leading edge is done and hinged. So it's a little anti-climactic. But now I have another moving part!
The bottom of the control linkage shows off more of the temporary work back here. The marine pulleys from Harken are rather smooth and very nice actually. They'll do much better with larger line. The control tube guides will also do much better when they're bonded to the structure with epoxy and cabosil. The foam anti-twist supports will be nicer too without the wrap of electrical tape, so look out for that to happen when I mix up some big batch for doing ribs in the next month.
Speaking of ribs, I did a little work during the last snow storm to attach the horizontal stabilizer to the vertical tail, necessitating some filing of aluminum and using the die set from Harbor Freight.
That's all for now!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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6 comments:
Hello. I`m reading you from Argentina. I fly a self made microtrike.
I wonder your work.
Best regards
Nestor
Hi Dan!
I irregularly keep up with the progress you've made.
I'll offer my piloting skills for first flight if you don't want to hurt yourself! ;)
Hi, I love your pictures and descriptions! I plan to build my Goat in Ukraine, so started with collecting other people experience :-)
Thanks for all the comments guys! Sorry I've been slow to post ... school is literally days from being over, so hopefully I can get back to building soon :-)
Mike, I'd love to have you around for the maiden flight day and I'm happy if you'd like to have the first flight. Would be good to have an experienced pilot at the helm for her first journey, which I must add seems a long way off considering I haven't ever even set it up outside yet!
Dan
Hi Dan. I've been reading this from Guam. Although there is no place to fly in Guam, eventually I will move back to California where there are plenty of places to fly.
A Goat seems like a good way to go, although I find Mike's drawings might be difficult for me to follow.
Rick
Good Stuff! I've been studying Mikes drawings and visualizing how I would go about building one. Your words and pictures really make it easy to understand the drawings more clearly. And to see others taking the journey makes me think " hey , I could do that " . I know it would be easier and faster to build in secrecy but your input makes in so much inspiring for those who follow.
Don't stop posting after the Goat is built. I'm very interested in your first flight. Your first High Flight. Flight Characteristics and so forth.
I'm so excited for you and all the rest of us non- millionaires that dream of soaring with the birds without spending a fortune. I hope the Goat will help bring General Aviation back to the General Public.
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