Canard wing        started working on 13-03-06

 

01-07-2007 Nice result 04-08-2007 Canard is ready, filled, sanded and elevators adjusted. total weight 7,5 kg.  This gives me a total weight of 198 kg so far!  (fuselage + engine + cowlings +canard + nosecone)
26-06-2007 Fairing glued to the nose cone with flox.  01-07-2007 Nose cone filled and primed. 
20-06-2007 laminating the fairing on starboard side.  26-06-2007 Fairing glued to the nose cone with flox. 
14-06-2007 6 layers of glass and epoxy. I had some problems with the wax on the bondo. The epoxy came loose very difficult. On the other side I pus some adhesive tape on the bondo replacing the wax.  14-06-2007 fairing ready for trimming. (and sanding the bondo off) 
29-05-07 Aligning the elevator hinges,   14-06-2007 Canard fairing. First I put some adhesive tape on the surfaces. After that I put the bondo on with a drainpipe
29-05-07 Aligning the elevator hinges, and hole in fuselage 29-05-07 Hole is to big, due to early mistake. I leave it this way, and cover up with the fairing.
22-05-07 Wow   looks like a plane!!! 22-05-07 Detail on the wing. 
22-05-07 Tips glued and sanded. (downside) 22-05-07 Tips glued and sanded. (downside)
12-05-07 Vacuum bagging the canard skin 19-05-07 Forming the canard tips, cutting away the foam on the edges to fill with epoxy flox.
08-05-07 Plywood wetting to form the canard LE!!! 08-05-07 Plywood drying to form the canard LE on 22mm tube.
28-04-07 Elevator vacuum bagging. I put 4 pieces of foam on the M3 ends to protect the bag. 01-05-07 Elevator sanded and hinges alligned. Elevator ready for painting!!! 
25-03-07 Elevator foam sanded, I have two very heavy arms now! 28-04-07 Elevator vacuum bagging top skin. The clamps keeps the elevator straight on the table. I glued the bottom side a few days before. 
24-03-07 Elevator filled with foam  24-03-07 Elevator filled with foam  both sides!
18-03-07 Shaping elevator spar, and glueing first ribs 18-03-07 Detail on the inner rib 
13-03-07 Sanding the foam.  18-03-07 Applied the tips, and sanded in to shape 
10-03-07 Canard foam glueing. Leading edge already done 13-03-07 Canard foam sanded, tips to go
10-03-07 Canard foam glueing. Leading edge already done 10-03-07 Canard foam glueing. Leading dege already done. I used an alu angle to align the trailing edge. Thise alu angle is fixed by the hinge bolts. 
16-02-07 Nutplates ready to glue on the spar.
16-02-07 Testfit canard on fuselage. I sanded the bed on 3%  16-02-07 There is where the mistake was made!!!!! I forgot the 3% when I traced the hole a few months ago!. I have to remove the inner construction, and make a new hole :-( . I dit a test with a heatgun today to heatup a piece of ply with a stick glued on. I heated it up until the epoxy lost strength. It was a succes, The ply was ok, and the stick came loose.  I will do the same on the hole inner construction,
28-03-06 Testfit the hinges on the trailing edge. Ribs already glued in place. 18-04-06 Ready to receive some foam! Sanding of spar and trailing edge done.
13-03-06 Glued the rib support blocks on the spar front and back 14-03-06 Made the ribs today and testfitting on the spar back. Ribs where made by printing the outline on paper, glueing the paper on a piece of hardboard, and sanding the board togetter with 6 pcs of plywood to the printed line. It took me 1 hour to make 12 half ribs. Planning to make the 2 outer ribs the same way. 
 
canard spar before closing ( tnx Tony) closed canard spar and elevator spar