Andrew Aston

Codsall

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Aircraft Model
STOL CH 701
Project Status
Less than half
Building From
Plans-only
Building Experience
No Experience
Flying Experience
None
Building and Flying Info / Your Profession / Other Background Info
Firefighter,
West Midlands Fire Service
Hope to be flying in my retirement, Autumn 2011.
Building slowly due to work/family commitments.

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  • Shay King

    yes Andrew, They're 0.063 and with quite a large bend radius. They look much sturdier than the originals. While drilling out the rivets from the old brackets I oversized some of the holes. Then I tried a small angle die grinder with abrasive disc and ground the heads of the remaining rivets flush with the old brackets. I used the correct size parallel punch to press out the rivet stems. It worked well, didn't need to use a hammer, didn't have enough room anyway, and the holes were fine.
    Back flying a few weeks now. Trying out the mini vortex generators on the elevator.
    Regards,
    Shay.

    Oct 18, 2009

  • gary waters

    Hi Andrew, Lost track of the time taken to build from plans. Stopped to complete another 601 I bought for parts but decided it was to good to scrap. Have loaded photographs. Red a/c is plans built the yellow a/c was a kit I finished off.
    regards
    Gary

    Oct 20, 2009

  • Shay King

    Hi again Andrew,
    Yeah, I'm back in the air since mid September. No problems with the new brackets so far.
    Had to replace the altimeter though. This will be the third altimeter I've had in the airplane. They're cheap Chinese made, Falcon gauges I think is the name of the manufacturer. If I was building again I'd go for an EFIS system.

    Hope things are good there.

    Shay.

    Nov 9, 2009