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South Jersey Skybolt Punch List: : Last Update : December 26, 2015 : What's New : Build Log. Mantua, New Jersey. Things left to do! February 21, 2015. A little bit more orgainized. I have 10's of lists just floating around with things to do. I'm going to try and make a list and put it up on here for me to view easily. It will be updated with things done (crossed out) and additional items added as I think of them. Fit and attach additional tabs for flooring and heel rails. Make floor and heel rails. Still...

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South Jersey Skybolt :: A Radial Engined Biplane :: The Weld Puddle

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South Jersey Skybolt: Welding 101. Mantua, New Jersey. Or as Budd Davisson puts it, Zen and the Art of the Weld Puddle. How did I get myself into this thing? If I didn't really plan on learning to weld, why then, am I doing this? The only one that I know of that is being built is in Australia. AND, that's JUST being built. It should be flying by Spring/Summer of this year, 2007. Thus my need to either, 1. Buy the $15,000 pre-welded fuselage from Steen Aero or, 2. Buy the tools and mat...Raining. They...

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South Jersey Skybolt :: A Radial Engined Biplane :: Yellow Bird Construction Photos

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South Jersey Skybolt: Yellow Bird Pictures. Mantua, New Jersey. Photos of Yellow Bird before covering. For those of you unfamiliar with Yellow Bird. Yellow Bird is one of the unltimate Skybolts that were built. It was built by the late Hal Wallace, previous owner of Steen Aero Lab. Hal crafted Yellow Bird to the highest standards and then hung a massive 300 hp engine on the nose. She's one beautiful bird. To the best of my knowledge, the shots that have routed ribs are not of Yellow Bird.

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South Jersey Skybolt : Attack of the Blog : April 29, 2016. Mantua, New Jersey. Welcome to my thoughts. Aka Attack of the Blog! Seeing the world through this pilot's eyes. January 31, 2014. Building a biplane is more than just building. I think? There's a lot of mental going on here. We can fool others but we can't fool ourselves. March 3, 2014. So that got me to thinking. how does one stay current? Are the sims they have nowadays good enough to keep the rust off of your flying skills? I think I'm going ...

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South Jersey Skybolt Home Page : Last Update : September 2, 2016 : What's New : Build Log. Mantua, New Jersey. Welcome to my Radial Engined Skybolt blog. Zen and the Art of Building a Radial Engined Biplane aka the gorilla, rogue monkey. A Few Ribs and a Box of Parts. soon to change. A lot of ribs. getting ready to buy tubing for fuselage. STILL making ribs. got the tubing. learning to weld. Finished welding up the fuselage and seats. Finished the main landing gear. You'll notice that I can get long-wind...

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South Jersey Skybolt :: A Radial Engined Biplane :: Tools

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South Jersey Skybolt: Tools. Mantua, New Jersey. Tools that I've found to be useful when building my Skybolt. When I started out to build the Skybolt I had no idea of what tools would be needed. Having an interest in working with wood I had amassed a nice collection of tools that would be useful in building a house or a deck but not the kind of tools needed for the delicated craft of building a biplane. Compressor great for running tools. Compound miter useful for constructing jigs and tables. My faithfu...

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South Jersey Skybolt :: The 4th Dimension

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South Jersey Skybolt: The 4th Dimension. Mantua, New Jersey. Plane or Project - The 4th Dimension. The search for the next plane to fly while building the 'bolt. Parallel, or Parallax - Depending on which direction you're looking at it from. Defintion of Parallax from the not so new " The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary". 1971) par·al·lax n : the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different view points. A Few of the Planes that will be filling these pages. Ryan ST-R (plans were.

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South Jersey Skybolt :: A Radial Engined Biplane :: EAA

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South Jersey Skybolt: EAA. Mantua, New Jersey. Welcome to EAA. The Experimental Aircraft Association. Then EAA's for you! Ahhhhh. the wonderful World of EAA. Gotta love it. People talking to people 'bout nothing but airplanes. If I'm not flying, building or talking airplanes then I'm thinking about them. I'm sure you're pretty much like myself. Addicting, ain't it? There are more kit builders now, than scratch-built builders. It goes along with the whole philosophy of having it "NOW". Still working on th...

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South Jersey Skybolt : Gotcha's : November 30, 2014. Mantua, New Jersey. A list of the "gotcha's". That I've discovered for the Radial Skybolt. September 8, 2014. Trying to get things right from the beginning. This isn't the first time I've discovered, or knew of, something askew with the plans. But. it's the first time that hit me hard enough to want to take pen in hand and make a list of the various "watchouts" specifically for the "Radial" Skybolt. The one that started it all. Stab Wire Attach Straps.