Three brothers with a lifelong love of aviation.

"Engineering the fastest, longest-range aircraft you can build in your garage."

Years of experience and schooling. Years of design and development.

Self-funded.

Developing new, automated composite fabrication methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lb8I4TpmYE

Attend some of their courses/seminars.

https://www.darkaero.com/

Keep watching them!

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#CarbonFiber
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#Tech
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More electronics work today.

#Electronics
#Soldering
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#AmateurBuilt
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#Maker

Wiring and soldering connectors for data and control lines of the glider's electric motor.

Pin spacing is close:

"The contacts in each row of these connectors are spaced approximately 0.1087 inches (2.76 mm), and the rows are spaced 0.112 inches (2.84 mm) apart; the pins in the two rows are offset by half the distance between adjacent contacts in a row."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature

Many more to do, whew!

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#Wiring
#Soldering
#Connectors
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Control and data cable-palooza.

Installing the central circuit board, to which all the control and data cables are connected, and routing cables forward to the nose.

Must keep things tidy, so it's time to also deal with left side of cockpit pneumatic tubes and coax cables...and get them all up into the pivoting instrument panel in an orderly fashion.

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Building a carbon fiber HP-24 glider.
Installing thick motor power cables. Cables are properly connected to three phase motor in nose. Other end of cables will be connected to high amperage motor controller. First they need to be trimmed to length, then lugs crimped and soldered.
Motor controller will supply about 210 amps to motor at about 105 volts. (Main power fuse at battery terminal is 325 amps!)

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#Sailplane
#CarbonFiber
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#AmateurBuilt

Heat lamp making epoxy cure faster in the fuselage.

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