During an extensive trip through Southern Africa, the project shifted away from the workshop and onto the screen. My CAD software runs as...

Before I could sheathe the cockpit section of the fuselage, the cockpit floor had to be installed first. Instead of using plywood as...

Finally, a new blog post! After the website was hacked twice and then crashed by itself, a few important adjustments had to be made in...

The fuselage sheating is being done entirely with 3mm plywood. To determine how to bend the boards of this thickness over the fuselage...

The first parts of the fuel tank have been made. I've decided against building it from composite materials. The effort required for the...

The installation of the reinforcement box is complete. This structure channels the forces from the vertical stabilizer into the fuselage...

With the engineer's signature, the proof was completed with 61 pages of calculations.  The newly designed structure now channels the...

For those wondering about the lack of visible progress in recent months, here’s the explanation: No aircraft construction project goes...

New Parts, New Material: Carbon Composite Instead of the pre-formed plywood panels used in the original aircraft, the cockpit floor of...

✓ Vertical stabilser skinning completed ✓ Balance weight with covering fabricated and mounted ✓ Coverings for flap lever balance weigt...

The mechanical limitation of the elevon control surface deflection is achieved through stops on a pair of levers. These stops are...

The last parts have finally arrived. I've assembled the electric control system in the form of a prototype, and I was also able to finish...

At the top of the vertical stabilizer, the weight for static balance is installed. It consists of two lead profiles, hidden under a...

The sheathing consists of four plywood segments with varying thicknesses and grain orientations, which had to be assembled into one piece...

The nose gear is now installed in the fuselage. It took quite a long time until the last hole was drilled, the final nut tightened, the...

The perseverance has paid off. Thanks to the active search of numerous enthusiasts, two complete Bf-109 landing gear legs (ex Pilatus...

I was never truly satisfied with the original design of the control cables for the rudder trim on the vertical stabilizer, particularly...

What are functional tests for? Exactly, to ensure that there are no unpleasant surprises. After the final parts were finally manufactured...

As part of the redesign of the nose landing gear mechanism, a locking device was also necessary to secure the gear in its retracted...

he nose landing gear, along with the suspension and retraction mechanism, is now assembled. After the welded parts were stress-relieved,...