Vision aircraft construction (Cochrane Alberta Canada): December 2008

Vision prototype photo

This is the Vision prototype designed/built by Steve Rahm in USA. and still being supported by Pro Composites Ltd. in USA. The aircraft is a 2 seat side by side, scratch built from a series of manuals. Built entirely of fiberglass and carbon cloth material the builder needs to know or learn some of the easy basics of composite construction. Building began Feb. 1998 in my spare time with 7 years where no building was possible. Building Hours at February 28, 2022: 4248.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some short videos of flights are at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxJXIwvmfNlNF3gwplFw7Q

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Canopy, Box Spar and Wing construction.

Building the canopy and frame

Scratch building of the wing main "Box" spar.

Adding the interior ribs to the wing. The wing is built as any conventional style of wing with interior ribs, all foam parts as well as these ribs have fiberglass on each side of them.

Below are the forward "D" cells which will house the fuel. My fuel tanks are running the full length of the leading edge.

Below are the fuel bays all painted with a double coating of fuel tank sealant.

Below the top and bottom skins are starting to be installed. Each wing skin rests on a "L" shaped flange that runs around the perimeter of each bay, slightly recessed from the surface. This gives a protrusion of foam mon the outside surface that will be long board sanded down later.