Saturday, August 11, 2012

Seats

Someday I will need a place to sit.  The project came with a piece of flat aluminum sheet that I believe they intended to sit on and use it like a sheet.  That seemed pretty minimalist to me.  In order for seats to be put in the airplane and for them to be adjustable as well as removable, I needed to add some rails for them to sit on and some pins on the cross support for them to lock to.  I built some seats the way many of the Tailwind guys do, following a design that Jim Clement came up with.  They are not only light, but are sturdy and best of all you can adjust them forward and backward while on the ground.  They can also be totally removed to have access to the baggage area or to work on the interior.