September 5-6, 2020 First off, I want to thank Blake at Flyboy Accessories and DJM throttle quadrants for helping me out with a custom set of quadrants for this build. We happened to catch DJM right as he was sending a batch of throttle / prop quadrants to the silk screener. He was nice enough... Continue Reading →
September 3-4, 2020 Moved on from the wings since they're almost done now and moved on to some of the fuselage / firewall work. I drill the hole for brake reservoir and mounted it. The bolts called out in the plans were too short and I had to order some longer ones. I also ordered... Continue Reading →
Aug 4-5, 2020 Took the rudder cable fairings I got from spruce and shaped them down with the sanding disk. I decided that I wanted these to be removable so I made a backing plate for them with countersunk nut plates for #6 screws. I shaped them so the #8 screw that holds the adel... Continue Reading →
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 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 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 20, 2020 Today I fabricated the elevator up-stop which does double duty as a mounting point for the vertical stabilizer. It's a horizontal piece that sits across he rear deck. It turns out that we couldn't hit full throw anyway so it took some investigating to figure out what was binding. We found that... Continue Reading →
July 18, 2020 The next step in mounting the horizontal stabilizer is to drill the holes that set the incidence. The instructions say to use a 3/16" space under the rear spar to set the incidence of the horizontal stabilizer. We used trial and error with various size drill bits that were all around 3/16"... Continue Reading →
July 16, 2020 I started today with a hardware store run. I purchased some 3/8" shaft collars and springs for the brake pedals. I don't like the idea of dragging brakes so adding some spring returns will ensure the pedals are held in place during taxi. Spring returns for the brake pedals I also picked... Continue Reading →
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