Starting the Wheel Pants.

I made some special off-plans templates for the wheel pants.  I am attempting to create pressure recovery type pants, but of course, the big challenge is adapting PR pants to the wing attachment. It was wet, raining and cold in the hangar, so we set up shop in the nearby T-hangar pilot's lounge.

Here, we are establishing the cutting pattern to make the two wheel pants.  There is both a left and a right pant, they are slightly different.

After the first core is cut, it left an interesting block of foam. Here the second pant is ready for hot wiring. They turned out pretty well.  By the way, that's a 2008 AirVenture poster in the background, featuring the Aeroshell cow, Amoolia. The poster is autographed by famous race pilot and altitude record setter, Bruce Bohannon.