April 26th, 2010
Here at Team Indy, as the title says, we are definitely “Rolling Along”. As you can see, the main landing gears are now assembled and attached. We have also installed the control stick torque tube and some turnbuckles.
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, for your viewing pleasure. We are sparing like crazy and spreading our wings!
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April 19th, 2010
Instructor Kevin Patterson and Henry McAdory with the rudder jig
We are continuing work on the tail sufaces, Our strealined tubing came in and the students with Mr. Patterson’s help bent up the pieces for the vertical and the rudder. This week is welding time for those items.
We are fabricating the other metal parts such as the hinges. The work continues, someday it will be a Sopwith Strutter. AIM Atlanta had a job fair last Friday and the Rotec Radial was run for all the participants to see and hear.
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April 5th, 2010
Good-day all! Team Indy has been working hard to accomplish our Nieuport 11 project. To date, we have welded our landing gear in place, cut out our floor pads and cut out our templates for the control stick and phenolic bushings. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Please stay tuned for the upcoming pictures. It’s going to be real nice. In case you are not aware, this week of the 5th is spring break for team indy. So, catch us the week after for more updates.
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March 29th, 2010
Haven’t been able to find that “just right” person to run the pup program yet, but we’re trying. Will post again just as soon as that happens.
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March 26th, 2010
As of March 23, 2010 Alvin, Carl, Andrew, Jeff, and Matt pull together as a work in progress. Carl, Jeff and Matt are seen here working on the wings. As Alvin is assembling the pilots chair, Andrew is working on constructing the aileron pulley system.
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March 23rd, 2010
Instructor Kevin Patterson, Jin Hong, and Brian Henley clamping the stabilizer nose ribs in the jig after steaming the wood.
Work on the Struttrer is progressing much faster now that we have new help. Students Jin Hong, Brian Henely, Chrstal Lewis, Henry McAdory, Eric Rivers, Frank Darrow and James Gibbins are all volunteering on a regular basis and doing a great job.
The horizontal stabilizer is progressing, all the ribs are complete, the metal parts are in progress and the spar has been planed to the correct dimensions. The spar still has to have the routing completed before we can start assembling the stabilizer. The vertical stabilizer is just about ready to be welded, waiting on a piece of airfoil shaped tubing to arrive. We are still working on producing the leading edge for the stabilizer, making a lot of sawdust, but not quite getting the finished product we are looking for. Ran the Rotec 3600 run stand and as usual it draws a crowd. We are getting it broken in and have been able to run it at a higher RPM, sure sounds great.
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March 15th, 2010
Erik Rivers laying out the vertical stabilizer
We are making good progress on the Strutter. The horizontal and vertical stabilizer are in progress and as soon as the trailing edge material shows up we will be assembling both stabilizers. For those who are building Sopwith aircraft we have found a good source of a&p 121 section tubing(trailing edge) at a good price, let me know if you are interested. We have two new volunteers working on the strutter, Jeffrey Kennedy and Harry McAdory. We are still manufacturing wing ribs(seems like forever) only forty or so to go.
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March 9th, 2010
Hosted the EAA Workshops this past weekend, not able to make much progress on the Pup. Next week looks better…
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February 28th, 2010
Currently working on rearranging the Pup room. Have a couple of hopefuls in mind to join our team. More on this later.
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