BUILDING

I was thinking to be done with those doors in February following hinge and closing mechanism installation but it was just a sweet dream ! After the fuel tanks it’s really the step that takes the most time but before all gives you the impression nothing is moving...

October 2021, I start the two components interior paint, a lot more resistant than the grey primer used on less solicited parts. I have to mask everything not to be painted inside the fuselage and built a booth around to avoid painting the workshop and everything...

In March 2021 we are working on the baggage compartment, rear seats floor and footrests. Once closed those structures can not be accessed anymore so it’s important to plan some tubes for the electrical cables and pneumatic runs through the fuselage. In April I am...

We are halfway through ! We have started this incredible adventure  two and a half years ago and we should be able to contemplate Spirit of Sion, ready for liftoff, in about 30 months ! Until then, we still have plenty of work… Early September 2020 we start building...

They are the ones which allow flight, 2 principles combine to explain how lift is created in order to defeat gravity and allow the magic of flight : Bernoulli principle states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in static...

During our 2010 round the world flight our CTLS were capable of staying airborne for 22 hours and travel 1/10th of Earth circumference in one leap ! Extended Range, the goal of this “project within the project” is to double the range of our RV-10 and...