Pitts Pedal Plane

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Vacation projects

April 7th, 2009 | Author: admin

Looking more like an airplane

Pedal plane coming along

The control linkage soon to be attached.

The landing gear legs were installed today.

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Putting the Empenage/tail together

February 9th, 2009 | Author: admin

If only real airplanes could have a tail that goes together this easy. The rudder and elevator mate together for a perfect fit. Just glue, and be sure that both items are square at a 90 deg. angle.

Keep the Rudder at a 90 deg. angle to the elevator

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Misc. items to finish

February 9th, 2009 | Author: admin

The plans call for a few small pieces that are quick and easy to do. I’ll list a few here.

The control linkage is made up of small electrical conduit pieces that we smash in the bench vice. My cheap bench vice (from Harbor Freight) is a little small of the task.

A few places call for welding. Here I'm welding the bell crank for the control linkage.

A little bit of time is spent looking over the plans. Here I'm looking over making the control linkage.

Constructing the nose plate starts with 2 1x10 pieces of pine that are laminated together.

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