Feb
10
Could we have any more trouble?
February 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The steering system is moving like pond water as a result of very little guidance and many different possibilities. We tried to hotr wire the rudders like previously mentioned. Now we’ve tried to use expandable foam (great stuff style) inside fan fold foama nd had trouble with it not curing in places. We attributed that [...]
Feb
10
Lift progress slow, but coming along
February 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This week the lift system has made some headway. They got the duct inner wall glassed around the circular form and are ready to begin the outer duct form. We’ve discussed how to do this and have come up with using the 2" foam like UH recommends. It should go pretty quickly. They just have [...]
Feb
10
Thrust Duct Progress
February 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This week we’ve made some significant progress on the thrust system. We got the two pieces of 1/8" plywood glassed together around the circular form. We need to cut them to length now and close the duct. Also yesterday we got the back side of the 2" foam completely glassed. We will cut them to [...]
Feb
9
Hull Updated
February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It has been a while since I’ve updated the build log so I’ll do that now. I don’t have pictures now, but anything is better than what I’ve been doing.
The hull was assembled last Friday. We did put carbon fiber cloth in the center of the two layers of foam. I’m not sure yet what [...]
