Building the Affordaplane Part 48
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- This is Part 48 in the how to build series for constructing the Affordaplane ultralight or experimental aircraft. This is a plans-built Part 103 ultralight aircraft that is easy to build. Our goal is to make experimental aviation affordable and bring more people into flying and building their own aircraft.
In this part, we show the final construction that is needed for the wings in preparation for covering them with fabric.
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You get my teacher of the year award. Great series and inspiring.
Beautiful work Jon! Thank you for all you do!
I’m always wishing that your video was longer! Great job as usual. Your fabric riveting idea caught me off guard. Wasn’t expecting that. Will be interesting to see how it looks when you’re done.
This is a great video! Addresses a lot of the types of situations one might encounter in fabric covering and how to think about dealing with them. This is the kind of information severely lacking in the aviation community in regards to teaching fabric covering.
Just a suggestion: when you drill the 1/2" hole to provide the support for the end of the "struts" you could hold them in the drill press vise with strips of wood. That way you wouldn't risk drilling into the jaws of you vice.
Thank you so much for continuing this series 🙏, one day I'm going to build this myself!
Thank you very much for restart videos after stop at part 44 because I was in trouble what to do.
Thanks Jon, very practical and useful tips that I am applying on the restoration of our 1946 Aeronca Chief.
TIL about low profile lock nuts. thanks!
When you drill the holes in the ribs are there metal shavings inside or is there enough space for them to get out?
Would it have been easier to drill the top holes in the ribs before installing them on the wing? I think drawing index lines at every 90 degrees along the length of all tubes, round and square, prior to cutting them to length for each application would pay dividends later when performing operations like this.
Are you installing any carb heating system and also any anti vapor locking system?
Jb weld 😳 just really really weld
question = why couldn't you weld the whole airframe ?
Short answer: Same reason you dont see certified aircraft with aluminum welds on their air frames: first weld crack and goodbye forever! Boats, lawn chairs, automobiles - no problem with a professional aluminum weld.
Aluminum welds are risky, require additional equipment and skills, and rivets are perfectly capable. Did you know the Hawker Hurricane (and other Hawker airplanes) used riveted aluminum structure for its primary structure? Aerodrome Airplanes does this as well.
@@SoloRenegade Hi. There is the crashed frame of a Hurricane at Tangmere Museum. All the joints in the centre metal box frame are tube squared and riveted. No welding.
It is interesting to note that the shape of the fuselage is done over wooden formers and wooden stringers. The early Hurricane was almost all covered with fabric. Even the wings and control surfaces. Later the wings were metal skinned.
The early Spitfires had control surfaces covered with fabric. Later the ailerons were covered with metal because the fabric used to wrinkle at high speeds.
@@arthursoutham9046 Many WW2 fighters used fabric covered control surfaces to save weight such as the F4U and P-51. The more weight you save from the tail the better compared to other places.