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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

The glider fuselage is on its side and I'm sanding one half of the fuselage in this orientation.

I'm sanding with a very flexible piece of foam rubber. My goal is to prep the surface for final painting. I'm using 220 grit today.

Tomorrow I'll flip the fuselage over to work the other side.

My final grit before painting will be 400.


A glider fuselage is lying on its side in a cluttered garage shop. A sanding pad and brush lie on the vertical stabilizer. (The rudder is not installed.) Lights have been arranged so that it's easy to see that the vertical stabilizer has been sanded...it's a matte finish. The tail boom has not been sanded yet, so it looks glossy. Most of the fuselage and vertical stabilizer are covered in white primer, but some touch-up work has been done with gray primer. The color difference makes it easy to see how much gray primer remains as I sand it to a very thin layer. The oval hole in the lower part of the vertical stabilizer is an inspection port for the flight controls.
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Darryl Ramm

@KrajciTom

Does the design allow for a transponder antenna in the tail/rudder area?

I quite like what some of the commercial manufacturers like Schleicher did there. I managed to break the transponder stub antenna on my ASH-26E (installed offset behind the main gear)... when (mis-)handling it into the trailer. Based on ADS-B PAPR reports for new Schleicher gliders I've looked at the antennas seem to be fine how they are installing them in the tail/rudder area.

TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@darryl_ramm

The rudder is fiberglass sandwich, and a dipole for aviation band radio is installed.

I will install a shark fin transponder antenna on the belly behind the landing gear.

Darryl Ramm

@KrajciTom

Great stuff, thanks for equipping with a transponder.

Hopefully Bob gets a chance to look at transponder antenna fin installs. something to potentially lay in when bonding the fueslage halves.

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