April 16, 2006

I did get to the hangar last week, but didn’t work on the plane, mainly because I was a bit too sick to think straight, and my friend Sung-Yeah came by with her boyfriend Paul to check out the plane. Thanks for the mango icecream Mochi guys, it was great!

I assembled my new bandsaw, but that was about it. I went home pretty early, and went to bed, hence no update.

This week though, I got some stuff done. I put all the lights together. Opted to put the foam tape on the brackets rather than the lamp itself for some reason. It just seemed better to me.

Then I made the plexi. The tape handle trick to hold the lens worked a treat. Here’s the almost completed lens. I say almost, because after I got to this point, I had to trim a load of plexi off the bottom so I could get it in the wing hole with the lamp fixture in place.

Here’s the whole ensemble. I still need to aim it. I’ve absolutely no idea about where this thing should be pointing! I’ll ask Mike and Cameron to see where they aimed theirs.

Fully functioning! It’s great trying all these things out and then they actually work as planned! The HID units make a high pitch noise until they warm up (about 20 secs), then they’re nice and quiet. I can’t here any noise on the radio from them, but I haven’t connected the wingtip antennae yet. I’ll keep you posted. Pretty bright eh?