{"id":1338,"date":"2014-11-10T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:34:16","slug":"laser-cutting-the-volare-products-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/laser-cutting-the-volare-products-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Cutting the Volare Products Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a visitor yesterday; John Jackson from the Cloudbusters.\u00a0 As I gave him a quick and dirty (the shop is a terrible mess) tour, he was very interested to see the laser cutter in action.\u00a0 I gave him a show and he suggested that I post a video online.\u00a0 Good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a 5-minute video of my laser cutter in action.\u00a0 It highlights the Phantom Flash kit that I produce, but is fully representative of all the kits that I do.\u00a0 Just to be clear, EVERY Volare Products Laser Cut kit is done right here on this machine.\u00a0 I do every one; I do not farm out the work.\u00a0 In fact, not only do I cut all the parts, but I have to draw all the plans and parts in CAD before I can ever cut a single part.\u00a0 Whether it is my own design, someone else&#8217;s design that I am producing, or an Old Timer that I am reproducing, I have to draw or trace every plan and part.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, to date, there has not\u00a0 been a single Volare Products kit produced that has not been built and tested for fit and accuracy before being offered for sale.\u00a0 This fits right in with a position I took when I first started selling my own plans over 20 years ago:\u00a0 all planes have been built and tested and flown for, at least, the Flying Aces Club minimum flight time of 20 seconds.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to offer something for sale that can&#8217;t be used as intended &#8211; that is, flying.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video, in actual speed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laser Cutting the Phantom Flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D2PWLSpfR7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a visitor yesterday; John Jackson from the Cloudbusters.\u00a0 As I gave him a quick and dirty (the shop is a terrible mess) tour, he was very interested to see the laser cutter in action.\u00a0 I gave him a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/laser-cutting-the-volare-products-kits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builds","category-customers","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}