{"id":3964,"date":"2018-11-16T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubcrafters.com\/c\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:54:42","slug":"mark-builds-yankee-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cubcrafters.com\/c\/2018\/11\/mark-builds-yankee-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Builds YankeeOne: Update 10\/2\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Keneston is CubCrafters’ Sales Manager in the Great Lakes\/Northeast Territory<\/p>\n\"\"\n

10\/2\/2019 PROGRESS UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi again from the Yankee 1 skunkworks shop! \u00a0Well\u2026fall is here again.\u00a0 Since we last visited, we have had steady progress.\u00a0 As of this writing the tail feathers have been sprayed completely with poly brush and poly spray.\u00a0 The paint booth is being enlarged for the spraying of the wings and fuselage in the poly brush and poly spray.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The taping process was interesting, challenging and fun.\u00a0 I considered using the non-biased tapes for simplicity, but after talking to Mitch (our kit program manager) he said the factory uses regular tapes and he gave me tricks to use to make the sharper radius turns at the vertical stabilizer, wing tips and on the tail feathers.\u00a0 Getting the taped put down and in one place is part of the trick, but then pulling pressure and heat help make the turns come out nice.\u00a0 I do think I could be neater with my application of poly brush.\u00a0 I am not a hack but it seems I have had to take more time cleaning it up.\u00a0 I also learned from kit builder Stephen Michael that using a nice size piece of parchment paper under your iron at 225 degrees can really help meld in the poly brush into the weave of the fabric and help lay down or nib your tapes.\u00a0 Using the iron alone seems to collect poly brush on the iron and will deposit a harden streak of it in places you do not want it such as on top of rivet heads.\u00a0 The parchment paper avoids this messy clean up.\u00a0 Thank you for your help Steve!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

So now we will get the poly brush and poly spray on our wings and fuse.\u00a0 Hopefully all of you following along have also provided input on our selection of the paint scheme.\u00a0 I had a couple I really liked and one of those was not traditional and probably was not the best choice for the next demo aircraft.\u00a0 That said, we put some choices out to social media and the forum and hope to get some input from you on it.\u00a0 Being dubbed Yankee 1 it made sense to have it in blue over white with some red and silver.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see what you think!\u00a0 From here it will go to PA for its paint application and I will give you update on that shortly.\u00a0 Thank you for following along.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The paint scheme poll runs until CubFest!\u00a0 Vote now on Facebook here:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Yankee 1 Paint Poll<\/a><\/p>\n

8\/8\/2019 PROGRESS UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome back!\u00a0 I\u2019ve been very busy since we last checked in, especially with Airventure 2019.\u00a0 Hopefully you all have seen and heard the news from CubCrafters.\u00a0 Before leaving for the show I had Steve Michael from SWT Aviation come up from his home in TN.\u00a0 Steve is serial builder and a good one and now has his EX3 in paint and has started his assembly.\u00a0 He was kind enough to help me cover \u201cYankee One.\u201d<\/p>\n