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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/3/2006 4:40:26 AM   
pcastine


 

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Status: offline 		Cool looking anti-rotation plate...too bad it will be painted over.

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/7/2006 5:42:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		More work...lightening holes in the gear plate (2 oz out of the plane). Gear was bolted in with 8-32 bolts. Glued on foam formers to complete fuse.



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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/7/2006 5:44:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		Started on the cowl. This cowl is a monster! Mine weighed over 2 lbs!!!

I notched the cowl ring where the two cowl pieces overlap in order to keep a smooth seam on the outside. Cowl ring is bolted to the fuse with 6-32 bolts.



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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/7/2006 5:46:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Also started the hatch. Installed the LE of the foam former, and put in balsa/plywood blocks to hold the retaining pins. The hatch will be bolted down with four bolts through the fuse sides into blind nuts in the hatch bottom. Will probably remove some wood from the hatch bottom to save weight.



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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/7/2006 11:55:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking good Pete! How do you get the cowl off? I assume a very long ball driver or do the cap heads remove from the hatch side?

.........Mark

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/8/2006 5:01:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		The screws come out the cowl side, not the hatch. But there's plenty of room to reach in and pull them out. I've had the cowl off a hundred times already, sanding the ends in order to get it to line up with the fuse. Right now it's only screwed in place temporarily with small servo screws. Once I get the alignment right, I'll glue it in place and fill the holes.

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/14/2006 2:06:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		My Yak build has completed another milestone......the covering is complete!

I'm working on filling all the pinholes/weave of the cowl now so I can prep the hatch/cowl/pants for paint.

I'm hoping to have this finished by early May......but we'll see.

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/14/2006 1:19:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking good, you will love this yak once it flies. I was surprised with mine on the first landing because I keeped thinking it would fall out of the air, but it flies so slow I quickly got over that and went into the mode of man this thing flies real slow.

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/26/2006 2:34:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Haven't had much time to work on the plane, much less update the thread. But, I have gotten some stuff done.



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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/26/2006 2:37:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm going to use Composite-ARF phenolic horns for the control horns. So I'm sinking a balsa block into each elevator to glue the horns into.



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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 4/26/2006 2:38:43 AM   
pcastine


 

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Status: offline 		Motor & cowl is on. Just waiting for new headers to mount the tuned pipes.

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 5/20/2006 5:07:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Bet you though this thread was dead!

Pipes are in, and now belly pan is drying.



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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 5/20/2006 12:40:53 PM   
whaturi



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Status: offline 		nice pete. are you going to take off over the fence with this one?

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 5/25/2006 3:30:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		on a scale of 1-10, just how hard would you guys say building one of these yak kits is??

thanks
tony

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RE: Yet Another Yak! - 5/25/2006 3:56:53 AM   
pcastine