WWI Student Project

 The leading edge of one of our wings has some plywood installed in our first picture. The next picture we added a bowl to help make needed spacing for the carburetor heat system. The fuel tank top has been welded in place in the third picture and we added some water to the oil tank and found some leaks that we need to fix. Both tanks will have a pressure check done before permanently installed in the Nieuport 24 aircraft. In the bottom row of pictures new oil lines have been made and installed. Please click on all pictures to enlarge. Thank you. 

If you saw us in the April issue of Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) magazine and this is your first time here, “Welcome!”

To see past blogs about our Nieuport 24 we are building go to Categories, right hand side of page and click on Team Chesapeake and you can review over 2 years of information about building this aircraft and about the students who have volunteered to help fabricate it. From making the tables in the beginning, to bending the metal, every step is documented in the blog.  If you have not seen the article about AIM’s Student Project in AMT please click the link below.

      http://www.amtonline.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=1&id=7922                     

   A big “Thank You” goes out to AMT magazine from AIM in Chesapeake, Virginia.

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James Carter is placing the Nieuport 24 fuel tank back into the aircraft and then he connected some fuel lines to the fittings near the top of the tank . Please click on the pictures to see where the hoses are located.

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Sometimes an event can trigger something inside you and it changes your life at that very moment. This is what happened to Hunafa Armstrong who is pictured here. When he was eight years old and enjoying his birthday he had a chance to sit in the cockpit of an F-16 aircraft and at that moment he knew what his calling was, and that was aviation. He pursued his dream by being part of the ROTC during high school and eventually joining the Army. While living in Hilton Head, South Carolina he saw an ad in the paper for our school and since he was familiar with this area and enjoyed living here before he re-located to enroll in our aviation maintenance school. There are many parts of the school he finds interesting such as understanding how aircraft fly but also he said he likes the Nieuport 24 student project because it brings you back to the beginnings of airplanes. Hunafa plans are to take our Avionics classes we offer here also to gain further understanding of reaching his goal of becoming an Aviation Engineer. Hunafa is learning to use a jig saw to help with the cutting out of aircraft ribs and formers. Please click on all pictures to enlarge. 

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Last week we were welding on the oil tank and in these pictures you can see the flanges that were attached. Here are pictures of the inside and outside of  the oil tank. Also in one of the pictures you can see where the oil tank location is on the fuel tank. The top picture has writing on the firewall to show some of the future pluming we will be doing. Please click on all pictures to enlarge them which will give you a good visual of all parts. 

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