- 13.4.3 Pitot Tube Installation
- 13.4.2 Static Port
- 13.2.1 Instrument Panel Mounting
- 13.3.2 Ground Power Plug
- 13.0 Electrical System Documentation
- 13.0 Wire Labels
- 13.2.2 / 13.6.2 Aft wiring complete
- 13.8.1 Magnetometer connections
- 13.9.2 Autopilot Roll Servo Wire Routing Modification
- 13.7.1 Avionics Shelf
- 13.8.1 Magnetometer Mounting Bracket – Completed
- 13.8.1 Magentometer Bracket
- 13.1.6 Transponder Antenna Ground Plane
- 13.5.1 Navigation/Strobe Wing Root Connectors
- 13.0 Electrons are flowing
- 13.9.2 Autopilot Roll Servo Mounting
- 13.3.4 Overhead Switch Panel Wiring
- 13.2.2 Engine Wiring
- 13.6.2 Primary Alternator Connection
- 13.7.1 Avionics Shelf
- 13.8.1 OAT probe
- 13.2.2 EIS wiring
- 13.2 EFIS and Instrument Panel Layout
- 13.6 Ground Block – Part II
- 13.7.4 Headset jacks
- 13.3.4 Overhead Switch Panel
- 13.6 Ground blocks
- 13.8.2 Annunicator Panel
- 13.8.2 Annunicator Panel
- 13.8.2 Annunicator Panel
- 13.6 Electrical supply lines
- 13.6.3 Ground Power Receptacle
- 13.2 Instrument Panel Layout
- 13.3.5 Avionics Wiring
- 13.9.2 Auto Pilot Pitch Servo Mounting
- 13.7 Avionics and Wiring
- 13.7 Wiring
- 13.2 Panel painting
- 13.2 Panel installation
- 12.3.5 Minor setback on Avionics wiring
- 13.8.2 Annunciator Panel Problem
- 13.1.9 ELT Installation
- 13.6 Power Supply
- 13.7.4 It’s always something…
- 13.0 Wire routing
- 13.1.8 GPS Antenna Shelf
- 13.7.4 Audio Panel Relocation
- 13.0 Wire Routing (Remediation)
- 13.6.1 Battery Hold-Down
- 13.2.1 Instrument Panel – Final Install
- 13.3.3 / 13.5.3 Trim & Landing Light Test
- 13.8.1 EFIS alternate power
- 13.5.2 Cabin Lighting
- 13.1.4 Glideslope Antenna
- 13.3.4 Overhead Switch Panel
- 13.99 Instrument Panel overlays
- 13.99 Installing Engraved parts
- 13.99 Instrument Panel Lighting
- 13.4 Pitot/Static Remediation
- Static Port Conundrum
- GPS Replacement
- Secondary EFIS Power
- 13.99 Electrical System Diagram
- 13.99 – Current Sensor Repair
- 13.99 – ADS-B in antenna
- 13.99 – Switch panel update
- 13.4 – More Static Port Fun
Now that I’ve got the mask, it’s time to start making the frame. When I first started thinking about this idea, I wasn’t sure how I would make the frame that the mask and PCB attaches to. But as usual, Malcolm had the solution… Styrene. He uses it in a lot of his models.
In case you forgot. Malcolm’s tank.
I always think of Malcolm when I watch Flight of the Phoenix (the real one, not the remake). The only difference is James Stewart would have been flying one fast plane out of that desert if Malcolm had built it. 🙂
So I picked up a 12″x”6″x .06″ sheet of styrene and cement. I cut three 1″ wide strips. Two of the strips I cut down to the same length as the mask. These would become the top and bottom of the frame. The remaining strip I cut into nine half-inch long pieces.
I marked the position of the spacers on one of the long pieces and then glued the end spacer on.
To insure proper spacing and to keep the spacers at 90 degrees to the bottom, I used a scrap of 1×1 aluminum with a shim to get the spacing just right.
Now all the spacers are attached to the bottom.
I flipped the assembly on its back and then cemented the top on.
Finished product… kind of. I still have to create a flange for the PCB mount and the instrument panel mount. And I have to paint it black. But I’m getting there.