I spent quite a bit of time going through and deburring all of the elevator pieces minus the large skin edges. That took the most time out of all of this. I then worked on the 903 and 904 pieces to get them straight and level. Mine came pre-fluted but Read more…
My son and I found all of the elevator parts in the attic and brought them down to start working on them. I’m not including the searching and inventory time in yesterday’s work. We got all of the protective plastic off of them and I cut the ribs per the Read more…
Oh man, this was a TON of riveting. My previous sections didn’t have this many rivets, but it was very rewarding! After I got caught up and then some on Friday after work, I really dug in all day Saturday and a little bit on Sunday. This was all riveting Read more…
It has been a long while since I last worked on the plane. I’ve not had much time and I probably need to see how best to use an hour here and there to do this build. I had a good three hours today (11/19/2021) so I got after it. Read more…
I did quite a bit of work over this weekend. I finished all of the deburring on Friday night (6/11/2021) and got everything ready for priming the next morning. I primed all of the parts and then while the paint cured we went and look at travel trailers with the Read more…
I was trying to get everything more fleshed out in terms of how things will look in the interior, exterior, avionics, etc. Specifically with the avionics as I want to make sure that if I need to install any servos, antennas, sensors, etc. that I am getting them installed at Read more…
I spent the majority of this weekend getting the HS put together, final drilling the holes, and then I deburred the outside holes of the skin. I did have to order a tight quarters drilling set. I tried using a right angle drill attachment from Northern Tools but it was Read more…
Tonight was all about getting prepped for my next big day of contiguous time. I’m busy the next couple of days with church activities so I wanted to get these done today so I’m ready to go next time. It wasn’t too difficult to hack these out luckily.
It was a really good Memorial Day this year. We didn’t get to go outside since it rained all day long, but we did watch the PBS Memorial Day Concert on YouTube. It definitely touches my heart to remember all of what has been sacrificed for our country to stay Read more…
Now that I’m done with the rudder, I immediately started back on the horizontal stabilizer again. I pulled all of the parts out and did a ton of drilling, countersinking, deburring, and prep work. I should have documented better during this process but I was just jamming away while doing Read more…