I found this article in a old UL magazine from 1990. It is a story about the biggest swedish ultralight flight club, Swedish Ultraflyers, that started flying with Tierra2 airplanes and later had them modified into Akka versions. My airplane Se-YIB is mentioned as the one that had the most time in the air, and it was one of the 2 first airplanes that they bought.
Einar Edlund was a pioneer in swedish ultralight flying, and he was the one helping swedish ultraflyers to become the biggest. Sadly he passed away in a ultralight airplane not so many ears ago when he was teaching a new pilot emergency landings.

Anyway,  here is the article:

I decided to buy a Rotax original oil tank to mount. I had to drill new holes in the mounting brackets to be able to mount the tank in front of the engine.

After several days of hard thinking and a lot of soldering, it is time to bring the stuff to the plane and try it out. It worked nicely and I was able to hear the tower clearly from inside the metal hangar. The tower was pleased with my transmitting also.

 

I am trying out the wonder- whip antenna. It is a dipole- antenna made of only a coax cable. It is described here: http://www.xplorer.co.za/wonder-whip/index.html

This is not my strong side. But whit the right manual and good research it will do just fine. Lets heat up that soldering stick!

This was not easy! First of all I need to take some lessons in flying whit steering wheel, because I am used to stick flying. Also I need to practise more taxi whit taildragger airplane. I belive I neet to tighten upp the rudder and tailwheel wire tension. I was realy surprised when the airplane lifted off the ground when I was taxing down the runway. A got a little panic and then realized that I need to learn the wheel steering.

 

Today my trailer passed the registration and technical inspection. The engineer hade a good time inspecting the cirkus caravan as he said. But he was pleased about my work.
Now its just the dam swedish aviation authourity that needs to get their thum out of their as and sign that permitt to fly paper!

getting there..

| am able to push the fuselage in and Secure it without getting inside

The plane came out spot on the C/G, 86cm!

And I am installing the heater in the front. It is a small water cooler and a computer fan.

I am also going to paint some nice pictures on the tail and body. On the fin I am going to paint the goose Akka and it’s friend Nils Holgersson riding on top. Akka is named after the goose in Selma Lagerlöfs story about Nils Holgersons journey across Sweden.

And on the cabin behind the aft windows, the ducktales.

Jag är ett sätt att tänka.

I am going to weigh the airplane to make sure the balance is ok.
I am quite proud now.

And I got big help from my beloved wife.

A happy airplane builder!

Jag är ett sätt att tänka.