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In the Beginning...
...there was this mad idea of building an airplane
Date: 09/02/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 17 items
Views: 11260
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Picking up the first kit
October 2005. It's for real now. We go to Yorkshire to pick up kit #1
Date: 09/02/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 9 items
Views: 1381
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Chapter 1 Getting Sorted
Coming to grips with the new hobby.
Date: 09/02/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 15 items
Views: 1615
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Chapter 2 The Rudder
The first big lay-up.
Date: 09/02/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 12 items
Views: 4345
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Chapter 3 Tailplanes
After honing my skills on the rudder, it is time to move on to bigger things.
Date: 09/02/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 6 items
Views: 1427
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Chapter 4 Trim Tabs
Date: 09/03/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 3 items
Views: 1446
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Chapter 6 Flaps
Date: 09/03/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 3 items
Views: 1203
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Chapter 8 Wings
May 2007. Having proven to myself that I can actually do this, AND am still enjoying it, it's back to Yorkshire for the next installment- wings.
Date: 09/03/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 9 items
Views: 1614
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Chapter 9 Fitting Flaps and Ailerons
The first oh sh.. moment of the build, all turns out well in the end.
Date: 09/06/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 11 items
Views: 8577
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Chapter 11 Preparing Mouldings
Date: 09/03/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 4 items
Views: 80642
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Chapter 13 Flying Controls
Date: 09/13/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 9 items
Views: 1385
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Chapter 14 Aileron Quick Connect
The first step in insuring the wings will fit properly. Wouter comes to help.
Date: 10/06/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 9 items
Views: 1745
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Mod 60 Fuel Gauge
The standard Europa fuel gauge is a plastic tube next to your feet. Not exactly high tech. I decide to invest in a real one with an indicator thingy.
Date: 10/07/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 4 items
Views: 1184
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Chapter 16 Fuel Tank
One of those jobs I keep putting off because I can't quite get my head around the method, it turns out to be surprisingly easy.
Date: 10/07/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 10 items
Views: 2417
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Mod 65 Finger Brakes
The Europa is steered on the ground by finger brakes, connected to the main wheels. Like a tank, you simply brake on the side of the direction you want to go in.
Date: 09/10/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 10 items
Views: 1363
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October '08. Picking up the fuselage kit
Third trip to Yorkshire. All airframe kits now in-house
Date: 09/07/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 13 items
Views: 1781
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Chapter 17 Bonding in the Cockpit Module
By the time you reach this stage the cockpit module is fully "stuffed" with all control and fuel systems. Bonding it in is therefore a big step forwards.
Date: 10/07/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 15 items
Views: 2969
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Chapter 18 Tailplane Torque Tube
Making and installing the rear bulkhead, and installing the tail plane torque tube.
Date: 10/18/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 9 items
Views: 3621
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Chapter 19 Pitch Trim System
The first real moving part!
Date: 10/18/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 4 items
Views: 1125
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Chapter 20 Mass Balance
The Europa has all-moving tailplanes. These need to be balanced with great lumps of iron. These in turn need a containment structure.
Date: 10/18/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 17 items
Views: 10031
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Chapter 21T Nose Gear Mounting Frame
The mounting frame is an important piece of kit. It is used to fix both the nose landing gear and the engine to the aircraft. Not the sort of thing you want to have doubts about later.
Date: 10/18/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 14 items
Views: 2537
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Chapter 22 Rudder System
Staring defeet in deface
Date: 10/29/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 18 items
Views: 3062
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Chapter 29 Landing Gear - The Axles of Evil
Building a plane is not just about breaking the bank, it is also about breaking your back. This is where it happens.
Date: 10/12/2009
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 37 items
Views: 661583
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Chapter 23 Bonding on Fuselage Top
There are people and things that shouldn't go around topless. The Europa is one of these.
Date: 05/15/2010
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 47 items
Views: 68965
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The dream goes on..
Even when building you need to keep dreaming. Wouldn't it be wonderful to recreate great journeys like this? The sad realisation is that after 80 yrs of "progress" most of these places are now unreachable through war, revolution, closed borders, blockades and pariah regimes.
Date: 02/06/2010
Views: 35087
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Chapter 25 Electrical System
Date: 08/11/2010
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 5 items
Views: 1177
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Control Column
The Joy of building Joysticks
Date: 08/25/2013
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 7 items
Views: 681
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Chapter 31 Firewall
Bloody he..!
Date: 02/11/2013
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 14 items
Views: 1204
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Chapter 32 Sternpost and Rudder
Date: 08/21/2012
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 14 items
Views: 135441
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Chapter 24 Instrument Panel
Date: 05/26/2013
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 15 items
Views: 1621
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Chapte 27 Wing to Fuselage Assy
Date: 10/06/2013
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Views: 474
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The Path Not Yet Travelled
This hangs in my workshop to remind me of what I still have to do. On the other hand I now have more items crossed off than not. Am I getting there? Making each cross is very satisfying!
Date: 01/01/2011
Views: 5556
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Chapter 34 Door Latches
Date: 12/16/2010
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 18 items
Views: 1745
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Really Useful Stuff
The Manual suggests you need only the tools you have lying around. Nah. There are some things that are very useful or just plain indispensible. Here my grab bag of some of these.
Date: 01/02/2011
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 10 items
Views: 1801
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Mod 73
Apparently it is not only possible to lose the tailplanes in flight, it has actually happened. They Who Know About These Things have mandated a mod. It involves making a reinforcement on the bottom like on the top. It ain´t easy and that´s an understatement.
Date: 02/03/2011
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 10 items
Views: 2383
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Chapter 35 Fitting Doors
The ongoing search for fundamental farces.
Date: 05/17/2012
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 30 items
Views: 14683
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Chapter 37 Finishing
Not even war and football generate as much heated debate as the subject of finishing. Everybody has their own method and is convinced all the others are wrong. By definition they must therefore ALL be wrong.
I'm not really bothered. I am building a plane to learn about structures, electronics and engines. I have no ambition whatsoever to become a plasterer.
Finishing therefore goes straight to the subcontracting department.
Date: 08/12/2013
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 3 items
Views: 839
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Speed Kit
What is the use of a speed kit for a plane that has yet to move more than 3 metres, and that only very slowly? Dunno, but it takes my mind off the more difficult things I still have to do.
Date: 12/13/2013
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 9 items
Views: 784
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Engine Installation
Date: 02/05/2017
Owner: Jeroen Glazener
Size: 31 items
Views: 344
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New Balls Please!
I manage to crack my ankle bone on the bracket for the speed kit. Pool of blood on the floor, pair of shoes binned and 5 stitches. This is the way to make sure it never happens again.
Date: 04/23/2017
Views: 581
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