WWI Student Project

 This last year we made some good progress with our Nieuport 24 aircraft. Students volunteered many hours this year as they did the year before. Since we started tracking the student’s hours (April 2007) we have now accumulated 1,378.8  hours to date with an average of 65.65 hours per mouth for the last 21 mouths and for every hour a student is working the Nieuport 24 a certified A&P is with them so realistically the total man-hours would be slightly higher.

 Some of the items we succeeded on this last year are the landing gear, brakes, rudder pedals, bungee cord, firewall, top and side formers (not all installed), instrument panel, battery, electrical panel, seat, cables, flight control connections, hinge collars, steel straps, bushings, support plates, gun block, control stick installation, torque tube, ribs, cap strips, throttle, lower wing spar support (needs welding), aileron push tubes, carburetor heat, ignition modules, coils, and Powerplant installation. The students who worked this project last year overcame a lot of learning curves that they definitely will carry with them the rest of their careers.

Please click on the pictures below to see the progress made this year and/or click on Team Chesapeake under Categories to see all detail postings for the year. 

Thank you to all involved this year! 

                                          Happy New Year To All !

This week we have some pictures of the rib work we have been doing also you can see the layout board that is used to secure the cap strips onto the ribs. Please click to enlarge all pictures, thank you. 

                                     New Careers Begin Here

 This last week more wires were routed and Anna and Blake are checking the installation. What is important in installing wires and clamps is that a wire is not pinched between the metal or chaffing action will remove the protective coating on the wire and cause a malfunction of a component or a fatal accident. Please see pictures of clamping wires correctly.

In the other two pictures please see the placement of the coils, ignition modules and notice more work done on the carburetor heat system. Please enlarge pictures by clicking on then, thank you.

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                           A Successful Career !

 This last week we had a visit from our local newspaper. A reporter and a photographer came to our school to do an article about our WW1 Nieuport 24 student project. In the first two pictures you can see them talking to our students  and also to one of our A&P Instructors, Mr. Joe Eggers who is our Project Manager with the bright blue shirt. In the third picture students are running a wing spar into the wood plainer.

 The bottom row Anna is mixing adhesive to use in the adhering the cap strips to the ribs and in the last two pictures some electrical cables have been installed and more work on the carburetor heat system. Please enlarge all pictures by clicking on them, thank you. 

                          Student Success – that’s what it’s all about ! 

In the first picture we secured the loose floor board’s temporary to the floor. They will be removed later when we treat the wood. Next Greg Lord is busy making a rigid line for the Nieuport 24. In the last picture Pete Legarski, Ryan Palmen and Greg Lord sitting in the cockpit area are installing the electrical side panel that you saw in our last weeks blog.

The bottom row we have some good pictures of the aileron push tubes connected and the last picture we are starting to work the ducts for the carburetor heat. Please click on pictures to enlarge them, thank you.

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