Prineville Airport Aviation Education Air-Fair AOPA Courses - Hosted by Samson Sky, Inc. Saturday, October 3 & Sunday, October 4, 2015 at the Prineville Airport, Oregon 97754 At this first ever...
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE 24 June, 2015
Warren Blazenski, a machinist in Central Oregon, is carving metal for us, producing the wing root metal pieces for attaching the wing to the swinging wing structure. Shown is work on the hinge beam....
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE: 2 May, 2015
We tested lighting configurations using the wind tunnel model. Almost all of our lighting will be LED, so we used LED lights of appropriate size to simulate the effects on the model and environment...
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE: 2 May, 2015
We tested lighting configurations using the wind tunnel model. Almost all of our lighting will be LED, so we used LED lights of appropriate size to simulate the effects on the model and environment...
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE 14 April, 2015
Our final part of the drag cleanup on the rear quarters of the vehicle included running the whole vehicle through CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) to check airflow and that we haven't created any...
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE: 12 March, 2015
We bolted the hinges to the main wing so that we could test-fit the ailerons and flaps prior to bonding the ribs to the lower skin and spar. To do this we had to temporarily bond ribs in place to...
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE: 6 March, 2015
While the steps below are being done at Samson for the prototype build, you should know that the Switchblade kit will come with these steps completed. In fact, the majority of the wing assembly will...
SWITCHBLADE UPDATE: 22 February, 2015
We had the aluminum pieces made that act within the wing to transmit the pilot's input into the aileron movement, which banks the aircraft left and right. This is called a bell crank (don't ask me...