Friday 5 February 2016

Back at the CF-104

I cannot believe that it has been a year since the last post. I am kind of like the guy who goes to the store for a liter of milk and does not come back for a year!!
Anyway I am not determined to get the rigging done on this bad boy so here we go.
There are 4 main systems in this plane.
  1. Electrical including the power distribution panel and servos as well as the lighting, receivers and telemetry. Also included in this would be the turbine ECU.
  2. Hydraulic system which is primarily for the main gear as they are quite complicated and need the pressure that a hydraulic system provides over a pneumatic one.
  3. Pneumatic system which is used to operate the nose gear and gear doors as well as chute deployment and speed brakes
  4. Fuel system.   
        
                                                                             
  There are 3 main pieces the the plane not including the wings. All the wiring and the pneumatics need to be routed to just behind the pilots seat.  This part of the canopy system I have made easily removeable so access is no problem.                     
I will lay out wire harness and power distribution panel which by the way is the PowerBox Royal SRS on the bench to get an idea of what I am up against and to make sure my wire harness is long enough.
More pictures to come.

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