Having secured the pod cuffs to the pylons with little glass tabs it is time for the structural connection.

Four plies of glass are to lay between the cuff and the pylon with about a half inch reduction each ply.  There is also a line of flox at the intersection which you can see as a bit of ‘white’ in the corner join. Here’s the first ply on. Usually I’d layup all four plies on plastic at once, but as these are staggered it is not so simple. I’m still doing plastic and foil but one ply at a time. Even worse, I’m doing one ply per side and then overlapping a little at the front.

Here we are all 4 pies and peel ply on top.

The other side looks pretty similar.

Having done one pod in a day it was too much to start the second one. Here we go again, day 2, pod 2. This time I’ve prepared two plies at once. A bit quicker than yesterday. If I had room prepping all four plies together would have been more efficient.

In fact if the glass was not already cut I would have done one big ply and cut it into the eight required strips. I don’t have enough bench space here but thats what I would have done at my home workshop.  Its just that I can’t fit the plane with wings on there!

Here’s the second days pod which looks a lot like the first days.

Two pods both with outside layups at the cuff now. The next job tomorrow is to look at the inside layups.

Oh I put the batteries on the second pod today as weights to keep the cuff on the pylon. The little tabs came off at the leading edge. I REALLY hope its all still lined up correctly. I took a chance and assumed its OK….