Thanks for a wonderful birthday present, a 10" drill press for working on Goat and anything that needs drilling. I'm so tired of hand-drilling all the brackets and tubes and getting them misaligned, so it's going to be wonderful to simply clamp it up and drill.
Meanwhile making the drill stand, I also finished cutting, deburring, and drilling all 8 of the wing compression strut fittings. Yay, progress (yeah, I know it seems slow right now)!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Birthday tool
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Beautiful pictures . I will be using these as references if and when I built this. Will be looking forward to more build info and your maiden flight.
Kc
Way cool dude. I just got caught up. I must see this amazing vehicle. Oh yeah, and I'm home www.sailnaway.blogspot.com -Alan Stewart
I am so happy to have found your blog. I have been watching the goat vids on you tube and trying to make heads or tails of Mike's drawings... I have just about talked myself into building a G4. I searched extensively on the web for something like what you have here, and finally found you with search terms "build log ultralight". Please consider tagging some other terms like airchair and homebuilt... anyway thanks so much for blogging your efforts and progress! What is your budget for this project? Have you come up with a parts list? Thanks for your closeup shots - Mike doesn't really do any of those... I still need to get confidence in the rivetted and bolted aluminum tube construction method. I have been considering more traditional aircraft style welded steel truss fuselage and tail since I can weld, with Mike's design aluminum spar wing. I am concerned about the centerline wing/fuselage connection point though... alot of stress goes through that connection.
Dan,
Hope all is well with you. You usually post more frequently. Always look forward to seeing what you have done.
Best of luck,
craiggme
Dan; Have you figured out how you will size the flying wires? Bill says that the wire lengths set the 1 to 2 deg washout for the wing. Never seen any detail on the how-to.
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