dle's Oz Build

[rosslr]

Hi Dave,

Great to see you are back into it! Must have been a great trip and I bet you gained a lot from the Kitfox factory visit, Stick and Rudder and also Oskosh. The Holy trifecta for us Oz Kitfox builders!

I'm looking forward to seeing more posts soon. Hope to get out there soon to visit!

cheers

ross

[David47]

Hey Ross, yep, the USA trip was awesome, especially the flying with Paul at S&R. That's a must for anyone building a KF, no doubt. He's a great instructor. And it was really good to meet John, Debra and Brandon at KF. Really nice people with a genuine affection for their product. And of course Oshkosh ... no words necessary.

It's been very frustrating not working the project for around 3 months, but now I'm back into it, I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. To see the fuselage and empennage surfaces sprayed silver at last finally brings it home that I'm making real progress, and it feels great !.

There'll be no interruptions of this order from now on ...

[rosslr]

Excellent! We'll have to stir up Ben too!

We are planning an OZ circumnavigation next winter - you might want to do a few legs? Or we are always up for another desert trip too...

Head down bum up, get it done!

cheers

r

[tjentzsch]

Cool build, thanks for the sharing.

These build threads have been a great source of knowledge bout these planes.

[David47]

Finally worked out how to add a link to the photos for my previous post. Here they are. The good, the bad and the ugly of it all when fabric covering and then spraying with the finishing coatings for the Stitts Poly Fibre system. You need a very good filtering system to keep from drowning in solvent fumes.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QUMdcCQhDHmBRbJz9

[tjentzsch]

Looking good!

[Mcgaero]

Great work Dave!
I like your method of using google photos, I might have to give that a go.
I'm glad you've had 3 months off... gives me a chance to catch up unfortunately I'm away with work for a month now so you will probably get yours flying in that time the way you make progress!
Keep up the good work!

[jrevens]

The pictures should be a good help to other builders. It's good to see your progress, David. Nice work!

[David47]

Thanks John, and yep, these photos should help other builders. I hope you've sorted any issues with your airplane and are now flying again. You've created a work of art so I hope you're enjoying it.

Ben, yes I got the idea from for using Google photos from Brian and it works great .... should have looked at doing this a long time ago because you can keep the original photo file size .

So I'm looking at early next year for first flight. I've written up my flight manual and have almost finished my annual inspection schedule so most of the paperwork is now done. At the moment I'm waiting for a colour chart for the poly fibre colours to arrive from WA so I can order and get the paint scheme done.

[David47]

I'm about to start painting my fuselage and tail feathers and wresting with a final paint scheme. One of the colours I'm thinking of using is Polytone Dakota Black. Somewhere in the back of my brain I thought I read somewhere that using a black or very dark colour is not a good idea due to colour fading. Does anyone have any direct or indirect knowledge, or was I dreaming ?