{"id":2068,"date":"2008-01-24T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2015-01-28T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:32:40","slug":"6-3-7-keel-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/6-3-7-keel-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"6.3.7 Keel Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 19 of 42 in the series 06 - Fuselage<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Now that all the inspection panels have been created and the hardpoints put in, it’s time to install the keel.\u00a0 This is pretty significant since moving around inside the fuselage will be much more difficult once the keel is in.<\/p>\n

The location of the keel is marked on the floor of the fuselage and then the front section of the keel in put in position. Holes are drilled in the flanges to hold it in place with cleco’s. Then the position is verified again. Once I’m certain that it’s right, I removed the keel, mixed up a batch of structural adhesive and applied it to the flanges. Then the keel is put back into position and the cleco’s are put in place to hold keel in place while the adhesive cures.<\/p>\n

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Once the adhesive cures, the cleco’s are removed.<\/p>\n

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From inside the keel looking forward at the canard bulkhead.<\/p>\n

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Then it’s time for lot’s of heavy layups. Most of these go around the front of the keel where it attaches to the canard bulkhead.<\/p>\n

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Once those layups have cured, the holes for the nose landing gear have to be opened back up.<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 19 of 42 in the series 06 - Fuselage<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Now that all the inspection panels have been created and the hardpoints put in, it’s time to install the keel.\u00a0 This is pretty significant since moving around inside the fuselage will be much more difficult once the keel is in. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[30],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","series-06-fuselage"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}