After a break that included travel to a crazy hot desert, crazy far north, and beautiful Vermont, I had a idea for a mounting system for the lower wing in the trailer.
On a rainy Saturday evening, a quick trip to the giant orange home store for aluminum square tube (oh so expensive) sets me up with some material.
I'm planning to run a long bolt through just the wood deck, so there is no drilling through the aluminum frame. This is what it'll look like:
I'm ready for daylight to try mounting this to the trailer.
I also made it out to get more Argon for the remaining trailer welding, so that's also in the work queue.
To-do's before the first flight are now:
- install lower wing mounts into trailer
- finish weld the upper rail to the vertical supports
- finish weld the trailer frame joints
- take all of Goat for its first trip around the neighborhood
- do a weight & balance
- do a very thorough pre-flight check
- acquire radios (need 1x in car, 1x airborne)
Deferred:
- wing root kiss seal
- leather patch on wing tips where they rub the ground
- leather patch guides for elevator control lines
- trim color paint
- main strut fairings
- jury strut fairings
- emergency parachute
- drogue chute
- variometer
