This week I’ve been working on getting all the fiberglass work finished on the package shelf. This turned out to be a lot more work than I thought it would be. It also consumed a lot more BID and epoxy that I thought! After having fabricated the essential structure, I wanted to add hinged access […]
Seat belt hardpoints
Put the seat belt hardpoints in yesterday. I bought inertial retractable belts for the front and simple lap belts for the rear. Hardpoints were mounted as per the build manual: Micro-slurry under/around and 2 layers of BID on top.
Working on the rear package shelf
After consulting with a few Velocity builders on the different ways to close off the firewall and create a package shelf, I got started. This is my first fiberglass work on the plane. Good place to start as I am just building interior panels and nothing structural. I first cut 1/2″ foam to fit in […]
Start of my Velocity project
It took me a few weeks to get this website going, so I’ll bring the log up-to-date by summarizing what I’ve been doing the last few weeks. On December 10/09 I flew to Minneapolis then drove to New Richmond WI to do a final inspection and crate up the Velocity project I would buy. I […]