Not much to show in terms of new pictures this week. But a lot happened. On Monday Georg and I produced the second JS3 fuselage. It was released from the mould yesterday and looks very good. The moulds are already waxed again and waiting to be spray painted by Andi tomorrow. On Monday we will build fuselage nr. 3.

In the meanwhile Andi and I have been busy building three sets of wings. We’ve finished the top sides of all six wings. We have also prepared the lower side of five wings (cutting out and preparing wing spars, laying out wiring, cutting carbon cloth), so we can now apply resin, close the lower side and then bag them in vacuum. We do this one by one (small workshop and only one vacuum pump), which takes almost 3 hours per wing, after which we wait at least twelve hours to release the wings from vacuum.

Georg has already finished his wing cores (see earlier post). This week he produced another rudder (nr. 3) and started preparatory work and tools for the fuselage and the winglets. Now that his fuselage is ready he can soon start fitting the wings, after which they will be sanded, covered in glass and then cut and re-joined to apply the dihedral at the wingtips, and to enable the outer wings to be swapped out (for the 4.28 and 5.14m versions).

In between I’ve been trying out building the cockpit panel (grey coloured glass on 2mm wood) and did some work preparing the decals. But one of the coolest things is the Polo Shirts which are ready and which I picked up today. Now all we need is the glider to go with the shirts :-).