Companion Progress Thus far

[Mark Dickens]

Covered the starboard side this weekend. Glue, iron and tape, glue, iron and tape...and so on

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[Mark Dickens]

And the port side covered this weekend along with a start on the VS

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[Mark Dickens]

Finished covering the top and tail. I'm happy with how it all came out, other than the lowest rib on the VS being pulled up a little by me prematurely shrinking the fabric above it. I have a removable aluminum center section for the cabin roof mounted with almost 50 6-32 screws (it ain't coming off). The com antenna will be mounted there, almost a perfect ground plane. I'm glad I put in the extra effort to make sure that lower rib on the VS was rib stitched since it's so much more streamlined than letting that area balloon out.

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[Mark Dickens]

Before I took a week to prepare for Oshkosh, a week to go to Oshkosh and a week to recover from Oshkosh, I managed to get the Ekofill sprayed onto the fuselage. I'm very happy with how it went on. I made the mistake of brushing it onto the tail feathers which resulted in a thick coat that I now have to sand down. In one of the Stewart Systems videos, Marty Feehan makes the point that you always want to spray it on or you'll have 5X the amount of sanding to do. I'm here to say he's spot on. Wish I'd sprayed it...oh well

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[rodsmith]

Marty has been so helpful with some issues I had. A great resource.

[Paul Johnston]

Looks good Mark

[Utah-Jay]

Damn, I can’t seem to catch up to you.

Looking good

[Mark Dickens]

With Oratex, you'll be by me in no time. Painting the the top coat scares me so I'm taking it slow

[davzLSA]

Looking good Mark, making quick progress!!!