July 11 & 12, 2020 We couldn't come up with any good reasons to hold off on riveting the wing skins, so the next couple of days were spent preparing for that. We went through that good old routine of match drilling, deburring, and dimpling the skin for both wings. Both wings prior to putting... Continue Reading →
July 10, 2020 We're planning on mounting throttle quadrants to the arm rests. It's one of the more non-standard design choices we've made. The arm rests as installed in the quick build kit are a fairly flimsy piece of aluminum. Even without the throttle quadrants, there seems to be general consensus that the stock armrests... Continue Reading →
July 9, 2020 We finished going through all of the drawings to see what other things weren't mentioned in the instructions book. We didn't find anything in the drawings we've already covered so I moved on to the subpanel. I started with fabricating a few of the smaller mounting brackets for the subpanel and panel... Continue Reading →
July 1, 2020 Finished installing the parts I made for the baggage compartment wear blocks. Most of the prep work for these was done yesterday, so this was fairly easy to finish up. Just a few rivets and these were finished up. They'll go on a shelf for a while until final assembly. I also... Continue Reading →
June 30, 2020 Another long day today, but progress is being made. I started by finishing installing the nut plates for the flap motor side covers so that's done for now. Since the next step in the instructions is to mount the wings and tail, I decided to go back through the drawings starting from... Continue Reading →
June 29, 2020 I decided today to install the electric flap drive as the next step. First, I had to make a bunch of small components to mount the drive including spacers and random odds and ends to hold the motor in place. I drilled and installed the weldment mounts to the bulkhead and drilled... Continue Reading →
June 27, 2020 I spent today cleaning up all the recommendations from the tech advisor inspection. He wanted us to deburr all the empennage skins more thoroughly and re-squeeze every 3/32" rivet we could reach. It took a while but I finished that work on the rudder, the horizontal stab, and the vertical stab -... Continue Reading →
June 26, 2020 The new rudder center brace and bearing block came in the mail today. The bearing block is a side block that I'm going to modify into a center block piece so that all the blocks are the same length. I drilled out the recesses as large as I could with the stepper... Continue Reading →
June 25, 2020 I went back to work on the seats today. Most of one seat has been drilled already. Today I drilled the other one and deburred both of them. We're debating on whether or not to prime the seat backs or just leave them bare aluminum, so for now they're gonna stay clecoed... Continue Reading →
June 24, 2020 Since the left fuel tank has been deemed leak free, I re-attached it to the wing today. The Z brackets don’t line up exactly, but a small dowel and a little prying and it all bolted together ok. All the wiring and other parts came in, so everything is now in the... Continue Reading →
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