Archive for the ‘Hangar’ Category
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Birrfeld LSZF, Engine, Final Assembly, Hangar
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Last Friday, we celebrated a major milestone :-)
The engine ran successfully for the first time on the airplane!
The start went very well, which I credit to the ECI Fuel Injection and the P-Mag ignition.
As always there were minor snags we had to debug. First, the alternator wasn’t charging. Turns out there are 2 different wiring schemes for the exact same alternator/plug style and castelo inflavel by some very straightforward logic, for the alternator field to power, you have to wire a red power wire to a green one ;-) Obvious, yeah right…
And the second problem was that initially, the engine was only running on the electronic ignition and didn’t ignite on the traditional mag circuit. Turns out that we had reinstalled the mag on the wrong cycle, even though the timing marks were basically correct after we took it down to perfrom the service bulletin on the brushes. Anyway, it’s now all sorted out and we’re totally stoked :-)
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Final Assembly, Hangar
Made good progress towards first engine start. Which we were unable to do as it also rained out a planned full day of work.
So we still got to do hinchables some stuff inside the hangar, such as documenting the various control deflections and measuring distances.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Avionics, Final Assembly, Hangar
Beginning of March, winter really came back… So for the first two weeks, there hasn’t been inflatable water slide much progress at all, safe for a few hours freezing in front or even inside the hangar. However, spent lots of time on paperwork.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Final Assembly, Hangar
After a 3-day intensive assembly session with lots of help from friends, the airplane is almost completely together & wired. Less than a few interior access plates, covers, seats and little wiring details.
Next up is configuring the EFIS, calibrating and validating the fuel tank indications.
Other tests like fuel flow mechanical bull for sale measurements, running the engine for the first time and things like that are also awaiting.
We also hung the airplane to the hangar crane platform for the first time.
As expected, the platform didn’t break :-)
We initially had some lateral stability issues, but a few straps from the steps to the top center now keeps it from tipping sideways.
Thanks a lot to Markus for the awesome engineering.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Hangar
Last saturday, Markus came to Birrfeld to install the finished hangar crane mount.
http://www.flyvans.com/subproj/hangarkran.html for some more information regarding the project.
It’s almost ready to take on the plane once it’s assembled. Only minor rigging and adapting will be required.
