N4094 Cowl

[Mike Magnani]

Many of the cockpit and cowl pieces for my airplane were just so ugly that I couldn't, in good conscience, put them back on the finished product. When I tried fabricating the removable panels that cover the rudder pedals, I discovered that they were compound curved and would require an English Wheel to make them fit properly.
I used .025 5052 aluminum, a forming die and some hammers to make the access panel and the landing gear handle fairing out of one piece, mostly to see if I could even do it.
Here's some before, during and after pictures.
MM

[Scott L]

Mike, nice work. You're going to make all of the other Mites look shabby next to yours.

[Mike Magnani]

My good friend Pike Kelly and I have been working late hours coaxing the lower cowl into the proper shape. I'm using .032" 5052 Aluminum for the bottom and top skins because it responds best to the English Wheel. I still have to cut the hole for the air filter and I'm trying to come up with a good way to incorporate a box assembly to streamline the air filter.

[bill jennings]

Great job on your project, & it looks great. I am at the same place you

are with mine. I have made a couple of the teardrop bumps with a

planishing hammer and my next move is to try it out on the one piece skin.

Bill Jennings, up the hill at Rosamond (L00)