{"id":1011,"date":"2010-04-01T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-04T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:24:37","slug":"forward-fuselage-fabrication-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/04\/01\/forward-fuselage-fabrication-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Fuselage Fabrication and Panel Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got an order from Van’s today that included the fuel pump cover. \u00a0This normally sits higher than this because the forward face of this is vertical and the angled face is more steeply sloped upward. \u00a0This provides room for the much larger Airflow Performance fuel pump\/filter\/check valve assembly. \u00a0This configuration won’t work for me because I had to move the fuel pump forward almost 2″ to fit the fuel line between the fuel selector and the fuel filter. \u00a0This puts the pump outlet far enough forward that there is no room to allow the fuel line on the outlet side room to turn down and drop under the cover.<\/p>\n

I reduced the angle of the bends in the cover, which simultaneously drops the height of the cover down as well as pushes the front end forward enough to make room for the fuel line.. \u00a0I’ll have to fabricate new side covers from some scrap 0.020″ stock, but that’s pretty trivial.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>I started fabricating some of the small components for the forward fuselage out of 0.063″ angle stock, but it’s late and this was making a racket.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>Instead, I spent a little more time playing with panel layouts in the plane. \u00a0The cockpit is small enough that I can reach every part of the instrument panel from the pilots seat without leaning over (I have really long arms though). \u00a0This also means that it’s pretty easy to see everything, regardless of where it is on the panel. \u00a0I’ve been planning on going with a single 10″ screen Dynon SkyView system, but lately I’ve been considering trying to fit a dual 10″ screen into the panel. \u00a0Even with the 10″ screen, using just one screen for PFD, Map, and engine monitoring can get kind of cramped. \u00a0I think dual screens would force me to remove the Dynon D6 that I was planning to use as a backup PFD though. \u00a0Although I could add a second ADAHRS box, I’d still be relying on a single overall system which worries me a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got an order from Van’s today that included the fuel pump cover. \u00a0This normally sits higher than this because the forward face of this is vertical and the angled face is more steeply sloped upward. \u00a0This provides room for the much larger Airflow Performance fuel pump\/filter\/check valve assembly. \u00a0This configuration won’t work for me … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}