Hey Drew,
I'm pretty sure this is Rebel 568, but I'd have to check. I think
that I heard the kit was delivered in 1998. Anyway, I've only
recently joined the chapter, so I'm not huge on history. The members
are kind of upset that the project began too "lag" (putting it nicely)
after the work relocation of the "prime mover" fellow member. So
there's currently a "push" on to wind this up. The Rebel occupies a
pretty nice leased room on the east (taxi-way/runway) side-wall of
Hangar 401 at the Windsor airport . At this point, the airframe and
wings and engine mounting are pretty much done. That's "done" in the
sense that if you were building a house, and you get the foundation
in, get 4 walls up, and get the roof on, some people think "It's
DONE". Welllllllll, that just ain't so, is it? And sure isn't a
home yet!
So the Rebel has:
a completed outer fuselage with a lot of the rigging placed but not
finished;
two "pretty much almost soon shortly pending sort of" (did I miss
nearly??) completed (not mounted) wings sitting upside-down on the
work-table, including ailerons and with flaps option in lieu of
flaperons, and with (at this point in time) fuel tanks that are a bit
too big but to be for the last time installed maybe if we can decide
to use them or revert to the wet wing tanks and if so find out if
skin-deep-sloshers will leak and if we can install them (the wet ones)
as-built or do we have to start over?? Pheeww ;
full conventional landing gear of (optional??) forged aluminum metal
struts instead of Oleo type, with disc brakes on and plumbed, plus
tail-wheel installed pretty much done ;
whole empennage installed and about 80% finished ;
engine and prop hung and some plumbing done (where's the best place
for the effing gascolator to be placed??), and most wiring forward of
the firewall is run ;
dash panel installed with standard VFR stuff (I've never really
"looked" at it, but VFR seems about right), and most all of the wiring
requirements "hanging", but dash currently removed to cut a hole for
the about-to-be-purchased C-mode transponder,. Push-pull controls
mounted at cabin end under dash, but not hooked to engine yet.
wind-screen and flashing installed with about a million clecos ;
tracks and seats in, and early stages of the cabin floor mounted (a la
Cessna) flap stuff.
Probably tons more of stuff, but hey, I'm just a helper! Oh. It's
got doors. Sort of. They were hinged and hung, but are now off for
ease of working access, and they need the glass, and all of the
operating apparatus for them to be completed.
I hope I've answered most of your questions.
Some of us (me in particular) are hoping to get to the Rebel (or is it
actually a Murphy) seminar or BS session or what-ever in Brampton or
Bramalea (or??) on March 10, 2002. I would hope to actually get to
view a Rebel "in person", as I've only seen photos so far. One (at
least to me) biggy question at the moment is the ACTUAL routing others
have used for the cabin part of the fuel supply, and comments on the
fuel tanks pros/cons too.
Nothing hammered in stone yet about going though. Do we have to
"sign up"?? Weather may play a part, of course.
Anyway, "we" have a work party every Tuesday, from 7ish to nine-ish or
a bit later. Pretty loose. Apparently, we're welcome to come out
on Thursdays too, but Tuesday is the main effort. Maybe 3 to 7 guys
show up. All very nice people. One guy does mostly electrical, the
rest of us work hard for the first hour at getting heat in the room,
and then argue (OH STRIKE THAT).... we DISCUSS the merits and
draw-backs of the whole of the fuel storage and supply system/lay-out.
NOTE****(Conversion to steam power, mentioned by myself in a recent
posting, will come at a later date and will make all these DISCUSSIONS
irrelative, but that may be some time in the future. Not a lot of
cumulus on a steady basis in this, the SunParlour of Ontario, and too
many Fosters chuggers. Still works, but not as good as Blue! At the
moment Pelee Island Winery is just doing Ice-wine, so the problem the
stews were causing in minimalized, and helps off-set the weak Fosters
gas production.)
Hey, Thanks for asking. Hope this helps.
Now it's your turn!!
Brian Lawson
Windsor, Ontario.
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:35:03 -0500, you wrote:
Hello Brian
Welcome to the group. I've a couple questions for you too. Do you guys
gather on a specific day to work or how does the plane get built? What
stage of construction are you guys at?
Drew Dalgleish
Centralia ont.
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