The campaign to build the Solar Stemme fuselage enters its third week, with good progress.  The tail boom is 90% finished.  The halves are ready to join, in the molds.

                                                                                                              Here is the inner side, with peel ply still on.

The cockpit is 55% finished, with the honeycomb having gone in today. 

 We started molding the canopy frame, using high modulus uni-carbon to increase the stiffness.

One seat is finished, and the other 30%.  Each part needs to be cured under vacuum three days, to build up the sandwich stucture in three different cure cycles. 

The team here at the Allstar glider factory continues to lend expert assistance to this build, especialy our host Andrej Papiorek, who really is an expert at composite glider design.

First days of fuselage fabrication at the Allstar Glider factory, in southern Poland.

The first layer of light carbon fabric being cut for the outer skin of the tail boom and fin.

Cured outer skin, with spar caps visible.

Nomex honeycomb bonded in for the sandwich core.