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 [...]

The work on the thrust duct began earlier this month. First step was to cut the two plywood discs to the size specified in the plans. We did that by making a circle cutting jig out of a piece of 1×4 screwed to the router. The router was then screwed to  aboard at the right [...]