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Cozy MK IV
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Chapter 3 – Education / Composite Techniques
Chapter 4 – Fuselage bulkheads
Chapter 5 – Fuselage sides
Step 1. Cutting the jigs and laminating the top longerons
Step 2. Building the forms for the fuselage sides and preparing the sides for contouring
Step 3. Contouring the insides
Step 4. Inside layup and installing the upper longerons
Step 5. Installation of lower triangular longerons
Step 6. Completion of the fuselage sides
Chapter 6 – Fuselage assembly
Step 1. Assembly of the fuselage sides
Step 2. Center keel and seatback brace
Step 3. Contouring and installing the fuselage bottom
Chapter 7 – Fuselage exterior
Step 1. Building the NACA-scoop
Step 2. Contouring the bottom
Step 3. Glassing the bottom
Step 4. Contouring the sides
Step 5. Glassing the sides
Chapter 8 – Head rests, heat duct, seat belts and step
Step 1. Carving the foam pieces
Step 2. Glassing the inside surface for wet layup
Step 3. Glassing the outside of the shoulder support
Step 4. Glassing & Installing the headrests
Step 5. Installing shoulder harness attachments
Step 6. Installing the outside seatbelt attachments & external step
Step 7. Center seat belt attach
Chapter 9 – Main landing gear and landing brake
Step 1 – Landing gear bulkhead reinforcements
Step 2 – Preparing the strut for installation
Step 3 – Attach-tabs and installation
Step 4 – Landing gear cover
Step 5 – Installing axles, brakes and brakelines
Step 6 – Constructing the landing brake
Chapter 10 – The Canard
Step 1: Trimming the foam-blocks and cutting the cores
Step 2: Making lift tabs, Inserts, Jigging cores, Laying up the shear web and installing lift tabs
Step 3: Jigging and bonding the canard sections together
Step 4: Spar Cap Layup
Step 5: Applying the bottom skin
Step 6: Installing hard foam blocks for elevator hinges, the upper spar cap, and the upper skin
Chapter 11 – Elevators
Step 1: Cutting foam cores and bonding to the torque tubes
Step 2: Installation of the bottom skin
Step 3: Installation of the top-skin
Step 4: Installing the NC-6 inserts and the NC-3 hinges in the canard
Step 5: Checking elevator travel and installing tip fairings
Step 6: Installing the pitch trim belcrank and the elevator mass balance weights
Chapter 12 – Canard Installation
Step 1: Fitting the alignment pins
Step 2: Aligning the canard
Step 3: Fitting elevators & torque tube to fuselage
Chapter 13 – Nose, Nose Gear, Pitot, Rudder Pedals and Brake Master Cylinders
Step 1: Reinforcing the Fiberglass Nosewheel Strut
Step 2: Fabrication of the NG-30s
Step 3: Installing the Jack Wilhelmson Electric Nosewheel Assembly
Step 4: Installation of the NG-30 Box Assembly on the Fuselage
Step 5: Nose Floor and Sides
Step 6: Installing the Rudder Pedals
Step 7: Installing the Master Brake Cylinders
Step 8: Completion of the Nosegear
Step 9: Piping the Pitot & Static System
Step 10: Closing the Top and Carving & Glassing the Outside
Step 11: Nose Door
Step 12: Skid plate
Chapter 14 – Central Section Spar
Step 1 – Centersection Jig
Step 2 – Assembly of foam parts
Step 3 – Interior Layups
Step 4 – Install the forward face
Step 5 – Outside hard points
Step 6 – Spar Cap Layup
Step 7 – Shoulder Harness Blocks and Outside Layups
Step 8 – Hardpoint Reinforcement
Step 9 – Access For Wing Attach And End Layup
Chapter 16 – Control System
Chapter 19 – Wings and Ailerons
Step 1: Building the wing jigs (and wing templates)
Step 2: Setting up the jigs
Step 3: Cutting foam cores
Step 4: Assembly of foam cores and lay up of shear web
Step 5: Bottom spar cap
Step 6. Bottom skin
Step 7. Top spar cap
Step 8. Top skin
Step 9. Wing ribs
Step 10. Ailerons
Step 11. Controls
Step 12: Attachment, wing to center section spar
Chapter 20 – Winglets and Rudders
Step 1: Cutting the cores
Step 2: Glassing the skins
Step 3: Jigging upper winglet to wing
Step 4: Inside layups (Right wing)
Step 4: Inside layups (Left wing)
Step 5: Outside layers (Right wing)
Step 5: Outside layers (Left wing)
Step 6: Lower Winglet Attach (Right wing)
Step 6: Lower Winglet Attach (Left Wing)
Step 7: Rudder (Right wing)
Step 7: Rudder (Left wing)
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PPL-A – Blokk B
PPL-A – Blokk C
PPL-A – Blokk D
PPL-A – Mørkeutsjekk
PPL-A – Utgått sertifikat!
PPL-A – Radiobruk
PPL-A – Simulatortrening
PPL-A – Pooleys CRP-1
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