Aircraft fuselage soda blasting

We’re lucky to work on a wide variety of interesting and unusual items, and this light aircraft certainly added to the growing list.  Brought to us by a father and son team, who are building a Pitts S1 from scratch with their own specialised modifications, we were tasked with cleaning the steel fuselage and then painting with aero-grade etch primer.

 

 

Unfortunately our overzealous painter had already applied the primer before we had chance to photographed the soda blasted fuselage.  These items will make up the tail and undercarriage, and show the finished effect of the blast cleaning:

 

Here’s the aircraft being primed:

 

 

 

           

We wish the guys the best of luck with this 4-5 year project, and can’t wait to see the finished aircraft!