July 31, Aug 3 2020 Most of the 31st was taken up by the passenger side kick panel that goes in front of the main spar. The initially fitting was pretty bad, so it took some trimming and sanding before it sat flat. The bracket that goes behind it was difficult to hold in position... Continue Reading →
July 30, 2020 PAINT DAY! primed everything that's going behind the panel so it'll never rust. Yay paint. -Paul(Total Build Time: 484.6)
July 29, 2020 Pulled the sub-panel stuff apart. Dimpled everything that needed it, cleaned everything up and prepped it all for painting. Pretty simple day of just routine metal work. Nothing really too interesting. -Paul(Total Build Time: 479.6)
July 28, 2020 I attempted to get the internal rudder stop installed, but its never as easy as people claim. I want to mount it between the rudder mount flanges instead of on top or bottom. This means that you have to remove material in the middle of the "V" to fit around the rod... Continue Reading →
July 27, 2020 Drilled the firewall, made panel mounts and drilled to forward canopy decks. Match drilled all the holes on the upper forward skin. Drilled all the holes through the firewall for the skin mount. Drilled the center subpanel rib to the firewall. In order to line everything up, I moved the skin backwards... Continue Reading →
July 22-24, 2020 Temporarily put the rudder in place and moved up to the pedals to make the linkages for the rudder cables. The first set was for the rear most pedal position. Once the interior is in, if we need to make up mounts to move the pedals all the way forward, I'll go... Continue Reading →
July 21, 2020 Today was the day for the vertical stab to be drilled in place. After clamping it in place and measuring from the top of the tail to the skins on the horizontal stabs, we took our time to make sure it was perfectly centered. After a few rounds of measuring and moving... Continue Reading →
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