Doors installed

[JimParker256]

Wow! Brent has SERIOUS skills with aluminum! The nose bowl, cowl, and seats are amazing!

Question for you – are your seat "pans" attached to the seats, and if so, how? Photos would be very helpful.

And again, congratulations on your progress. If you guys keep it up, that plane is going to be an Oshkosh award contender, for sure!

[EricP]

Jim, the seats are regular tube steel from the fuselage. We built the metal pans out of sheet aluminum. The pans clip onto the steel frame. We will have "locking tabs" to hold them on. Brent designed the seats. They are adjustable in seat back angle using a hand crank from the front. The bottom seat angle is adjustable by selecting one of three positions and you "clip" the seat into that position. So the seat bottom angle is "ground adjustable" only. Of course you can also slide the seat fore and aft. We have a dual locking mechanism to lock the seat. The key to the seat is that the front is mounted over a half tube that can rotate over the main gear carry through. That lets the seat rotate up and down in the back. We simply use hose clamps to hold the half tube onto the main gear carry through. So I guess it is an original design of Brent's, I can't remember how much input I had into it! I did make the pans.... Probably easier to show you sometime than to try to describe it.

Yup, Brent did a great job on the nose bowl and cowling. That is all Brent's work. I tease him and tell him the nose bowl was his PhD in metal working. He says you should get your PhD at a young age...

Our standing joke is we gave up on the "Golden Hammer" award years ago.. and the Silver Hammer... and the Bronze... we think we are working on the Tin Hammer or something like that at this point!