Up next, ground and flight tests...

Finally... I think I'm ready to start the ground test. I still need to verify CG before placing the battery but have good hope of being able to change to a light weight battery. 
And then.... test flights...

Those tires (and a fish-eye lens) really give the plane an attitude...

A subsonic spinner for the new propeller

To keep the snub-nosed profile of the Avid Flyer, underlined by the tundra tires, the double Simonini exhaust pipes and the Cub inspired decoration, I wanted a shorter spinner than for the old Warprive propeller. As usual, when looking for aircraft parts, I found what I didn’t want at the usual ridiculously high prices… What I wanted was something like a spherical kitchen mixing bowl. In France we call them “cul-de-poule”…

So, as I knew what I wanted I went for a DIY spinner and ordered a cul-de-poule with the right diameter from an online cooking utensils shop and made a spinner support in fiberglass and resin. The trickiest part was to get the right cutout for the propeller as the spinner is short and therefore very curved.

Someone might argue that this is not the optimum aerodynamic shape for a spinner. While this is true the difference should be minor as long as I stay subsonic... 

"La mise en croix"

Thank you Alain, Daniel, Thierry and Octave for precious helping hands while putting the wings back on the plane...