Dean,
We made passenger and pilot seats separate. One of ours weighs only slightly less than your whole seat. Using the "Hat Trick" was a good idea. Ours is made using wooden ribs, foam, and one layer of carbon on each side. Our seat back weighs almost as much as your seat and it is made with 1/4" Last-O-Foam and one layer of carbon on each side. If you plan to put your radio antenna in the back fuselage area, think again about making the back out of carbon. You may also have to put an ELT antenna back there. You need to plan for your push tube that may be going under the seat as well as the center seat belt attachments that may have to exit through the seat. Also, depending on the canopy that you will or do have, will you be able to get the seat in and out of the plane? Our seat back is carbon, so I had to mount the antenna outside and had to make more cuts and repairs than I can remember when it came time to put in the seat belts. That is a really nice looking seat. "There is a time for building and a time for GOING TO THE GATHERING, and the time for building has long since expired." See you in Mt. Vernon - 2004 - KR Gathering http://KRGathering.org See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC
