The Velocity Project - Page 25

The aircraft finally gets its wings!  This picture shows how the wing root joins.

Three large bolts through the main spar hold the wing on the aircraft.

This process take a minimum of three people; two to support the wing and one to insert the bolts.

As another beautiful Florida sunset makes red and blue shadows on the airplane, both wings are finally attached.

Once the wings are on, it is necessary to put about 100 pounds of weight in the front to keep the nose down until the canard has been installed.

The project for the next day was to attach plugs and sockets to the cables that connect the equipment in the wing.

Each wing has two antennas, a strobe light and navigations lights.

With the wings in place, the control systems have to be connected, balanced, and adjusted.

Looking from the back of the aircraft with the engine cylinders to the right, this picture shows the aileron bell crank assembly (arrow).  A cable from the control stick moves this lever, which rotates the torque tube in the wing and moves the aileron.

The root of the wing is adjacent to the engine compartment when the wing is installed.  This requires a stainless steel firewall assembly in the recess at the end of the wing.

The pulley is for the cable that operates the rudder (the vertical fin seen in the background on the other end of the wing).

In this picture, all of the major airframe components have been stored together to facilitate re-assembly.

Next session, the entire aircraft will be assembled and rigged, and in the absence of any onforseen problems, flight testing will begin..