{"id":3306,"date":"2015-04-18T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2015-06-13T17:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:52:46","slug":"n-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/18\/n-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"16.1.1 N-Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"40\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/16-flight-testing\/\">16 - Flight Testing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Since I will initially being flying in primer and not paint, there is no reason to go to the trouble of painting on the registration numbers. So I looked for temporary N-numbers.\u00a0 I looked at a couple of suppliers and found Ace Graphics. After exchanging a couple emails with Bruce I placed the order for Royal Blue, Semi Rounded numbers.\u00a0 I chose royal blue because the propeller already has trim paint that looked like royal blue. The N-Numbers arrived while I was down working on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Before starting to apply them, I hit the area under the strake with some 1500 grit sandpaper to remove any overspray from when we painted the top half.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-18-MG_20150418_162737540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-18-MG_20150418_162737540-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-18 MG_20150418_162737540\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I had a nice smooth surface, I taped the N-numbers to the top of the area under the strake and then cut between each letter\/number. Then it was just a matter of peeling the backing paper away and using a spreader to apply the numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-18-IMG_20150418_165534165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-18-IMG_20150418_165534165-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-18 IMG_20150418_165534165\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-18-IMG_20150418_161437875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-18-IMG_20150418_161437875-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-18 IMG_20150418_161437875\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"40\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/16-flight-testing\/\">16 - Flight Testing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Since I will initially being flying in primer and not paint, there is no reason to go to the trouble of painting on the registration numbers. So I looked for temporary N-numbers.\u00a0 I looked at a couple of suppliers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/18\/n-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[47],"tags":[],"series":[40],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","series-16-flight-testing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}