31. March 2024

Installed a belly shield with stainless steel foil 0.3mm and fiberfrax. It covers the area behind the 2 exhausts and should keep the tunnel cool in normal oparations as well as providing some extra protection in case of a fire. We avoided sharing the rivets frim the firewall and the belly skin and used stainess steel pop rivets to attach the shield to the belly. We bent the foremost edge around the firewall edge, to achieve a nice round radius. There is room to make a nice Firebarrier 2000 seal.

Fuselage · 01. March 2024

With the whole mess at Van’s and Lycoming, I am still not sure, whether I will get an engine, before flying (or at least burning fuel) will be banned in Europe… but let’s hope, i will… I have started with firewall insulation work using fiberfrax under 0.15mm stainless steel foil. Also, we prepared the skybolt attach flanges at the firewall perimeter, this is about as far as we can go without an engine. But after this, we will be able to put the engine mount on, followed by the gear.