Project Skywalker

Project Skywalker This page is created to walk you through the journey of project Skywalker

Thank you God for everything 💯✨
17/09/2023

Thank you God for everything 💯✨

31/03/2023

After having assembled the interior of the aircraft we then went on to our instrument panel. We had to make a new one because the instruments we were gonna use were electronic and new. Pieter and Alastair were leading us on this because we had to cut some Aluminium Alloy for our panel✨💯

21/02/2023

After having put the aircraft back together we then went on to putting the interior.
We repainted the interior during the painting phase
We got a fire proof carpet from an old DC-9 and we placed a fire extinguisher at the back for safety purposes
We got the chair refurbished by a company in Rand Airport called Skytrim Aircraft Refurbishing, we are truly grateful for the work they did on the chair✨💯.
-The details for Skytrim Aircraft Refurbishing
Address: Hangar 10, Rand Airport Rd, Airport Park, Germiston
Contact:0118276638

03/02/2023

After having moved the aircraft inside the classroom we had to put it back together like a puzzle. We secured the belly of the aircraft on the mobile dolly then went to putting the roof back together. It was a fun job💯
We used 1090 rivets all together to put it back together and after doing that we had to hand paint all those rivets to match our beautiful paint job💯

15/12/2022

Painting was one of the most frustrating jobs if we can say. With no experience, we had to measure the lines from a Phoebus Apollo aircraft and have the same lines on the training aid. Please bare in mind that professionals have laser equipment to do certain things like this and we had to do it strictly by hand. After painting the first set, we were instructed to redo them as they were the incorrect placing and measurements. It took us a good 3 weeks of having to paint and resand and paint again for the training aid to be painted correctly. Our entire team had a go at painting the aircraft.

So for sanding... Sanding was one of the longest and most frustrating tasks that had to be done. Our teammates, Buhle an...
01/12/2022

So for sanding...
Sanding was one of the longest and most frustrating tasks that had to be done. Our teammates, Buhle and Sinayo took lead in this task. Everything was sanded down by hand to remove the old layer of paint to prepare for the new paint job. Most times the team had to resand the aircraft due to incorrect paint jobs and small mistakes but best believe it did not break their spirit. 💫☺️

29/11/2022

We placed back the main landing gear to get a proper measurement from the floor to the belly of the aircraft so that it can feel like a real 172 Cessna. We went on to cutting our 30x30 mm material that we thought would be strong enough then Pieter and Alastair went on to welding them together.We then did an initial test fit to see if it fit then after that we finished the welding then we tested it as a team to see if it could carry our weight✨💯✈️

Design plan of the mobile dolly. Our team had to brain storm and think of a plan that would allow the aircraft to be mob...
28/11/2022

Design plan of the mobile dolly. Our team had to brain storm and think of a plan that would allow the aircraft to be mobile but at the same time have a stable stand for it to stand on.

25/11/2022

Just snippets of the in between work💯

15/11/2022

Removing the tail: This is the team cutting the tail of the aircraft off so that it can be moved into the classroom as the tail takes up too much space. The support stringers were also removed from the inside of the aircraft.

Congratulations to the Project Skywalker team💯✨They Graduated from Mega Aero Training Academy on Monday 👩🏽‍🎓💯✨✈️
11/11/2022

Congratulations to the Project Skywalker team💯✨
They Graduated from Mega Aero Training Academy on Monday 👩🏽‍🎓💯✨✈️

11/11/2022

Removing the Roof: One of the trickiest tasks that we've had 😅. The whole team was hands on deck for this task as we had to discuss the best solution moving forward. Once we all spoke about each other's ideas, we had finally agreed on the best one. Moving forward we decided to remove the top of the roof with the side door support panels. This way the aircraft would be in 2, the body and the roof. This made it easier for us to move it into the classroom where the training aid would be staying.

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Hanger. 21, Rand Airport Road
Germiston
1401

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