Wednesday, January 6, 2010

With the New Year Comes Renewed Commitment

It's 2010... HIP HIP HOORAH !!! (oh, crap!)

Along with the new year's celebration comes the realization that I made far too little progress on the Mosi project in 2009. One of my new year's resolutions is to
complete the Mosi by the end of the year! A tall order, to be sure.

Also, I pledge to update this blog on a monthly basis.. at a minimum. I haven't even visited this blog site for months and I noticed a couple of comment postings from a last summer that I hadn't even seen before. Sorry, gents! That is shamefully irresponsible of me, and I vow to do much better... I shouldn't use the crushingly heavy workload in my "day job," my elbow surgery, or the cold weather as excuses. Anyone can at least commit to a few minutes a month.

Mosi status:

The fuselage has been stripped of it's old landing gear, and it's sitting up on sawhorses, waiting for me to finish the 4A032 engine mount, Y tail, and landing gear... all of which are still in the drawing stage.

I have decided to keep the original plan to make it a conventional tail-dragger for simplicity and better looks. Also, I decided to make the Y-tail and wing extension sandwich panels out of Carbon fiber/epoxy skins over PVC foam core. This should be much stiffer & stronger without the worries over styrofoam outgassing & delamination.

Pictures and further updates to follow in about a week. May the new year bring health, happiness and fulfillment to us all!