Just a few minutes to work on the aircraft today, so I completed one of the small outstanding jobs by fabricating and welding into place small plates of 0.032" steel which will be used to mount the static ports. These were bent into a shallow "L" section with the short edge edge of the L welded to the fuselage upright. These are positioned either side of the fuselage just in front of station 111 and jigged so that the long leg of the "L" lies flush with the stringers so that the fabric can be glued to the plates with no distrubance to the airflow. The two static ports will be joined by an inverted U tube to ensure that the static reading is not influenced by any sideways movement of the fuselage through the air (slipping).
Just a few minutes to work on the aircraft today, so I completed one of the small outstanding jobs by fabricating and welding into place small plates of 0.032" steel which will be used to mount the static ports. These were bent into a shallow "L" section with the short edge edge of the L welded to the fuselage upright. These are positioned either side of the fuselage just in front of station 111 and jigged so that the long leg of the "L" lies flush with the stringers so that the fabric can be glued to the plates with no distrubance to the airflow. The two static ports will be joined by an inverted U tube to ensure that the static reading is not influenced by any sideways movement of the fuselage through the air (slipping).
