Legal Eagle Flying Adventures

We have been working on a new wing building project. We are using the full size rib jig pattern furnished in the legaleagleparts.com Wing Building assist drawings. This is based on Leonard Milholland’s full size rib drawing and we are using the gusset kit from legalealeparts.com as well. We will be using the Laser cut nose ribs and aluminum wing fittings as we progress. We have just finished the wing ribs and will be publishing the video tomorrow, the 18th of December 2025. We have finished video of building the rib jig from the Wing Build assist drawings, building videos. Next up is the spruce cap strips for wing and processing the spruce parts required for wing construction. In the past, when I lived in California, would order all the parts at once from Aircraft Spruce and when they were ready would drive down and pick them up. Costs of shipping are very high so I talked to Leonard and went down to Houston and and visited Clark hardwood, Picked up enough spruce for all needs with some extra. Borrowed a planner from fellow Legal Eagle builder and getting ready to process the spruce. Will do a video on all involved with intent of proving how to info to others that may want to save big bucks.

We ate getting close to a wing kit that will include nose ribs, aileron ribs, aileron end ribs and gussetts, all lazer cut and set for Leonards full size rib drawing.

We have completed the tail wheel drawings for a tail post mount. I have been using this type tail wheel installation for 3 years on SR 7-1/2 and about a year on ORV. It works great and saves weight. It also saves time when loading and unloading ORV because it is not connected to rudder horn as before. Will have this on our website, legaleagleparts.com and the catalog early next week

As simple as the Legal Eagle is i have never been a big fan of check lists bit I may need to rethink this concept. Nothing like having a beautiful evening flight and when shutting down and exiting the machine i notice it was not necessary to remove the seat belt. Not the first time taking off without seat belt but entire flight, this is a first.

We are adding to our bag of goodies, GPS, Part of the GoPro camera, in this case it is a Hero 13 and we have an Insta 360X3, New is the Telemetry Extractor software with Gauge overlays, and the other thing we are working on is Audio direct from pilot to Video Camera. This way we can discuss what we are getting ready to do and how it progresses plus lots of other aspects of flying the Legal Eagle XL. More to come including some neat notes on building videos.

When welding fuselage tubes fittings should be no gaps larger than welding rod and welding rod should be thickness of material being welded. This means when welding 2 tubes, .035 wall, max gap would be about .035, welding rod would be .035.

When gas welding tip should be sized so it will just melt material when set to max heat. Tip used on .035 tubes should not be large enough to weld on .049 tubes.

When joining two tubes drill a small hole in cross tub in area of weld, it will be inside of tub, a 3/32″ hole is great, do not let bit hit opposite side of tube. This is to vent gases and prevent blow out when welding last weld sealing tub.

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