I spent a good amount of time finishing the right wing skin which is ready to go now for priming and riveting. The left wing ribs and spars are also completed. Not much else to report at this time.
This will probably go over multiple days per wing but I got all of the dimples completed for the largest skin on the top of the right wing today. Alot of monotonous dimpling while listening to podcasts. I noticed I’ve not been including enough pictures with me in it per Read more
Finally got a chance to work on the plane without having to worry about school work. I’m sooo close. I got all of the counter sinking completely done where the skin doubler and skin come together as well as the #8 screw holes. I also was able to finish the Read more
I’ve been extremely busy with church related activities as well as trying to improve my own processes while building. I am constantly dealing with my poor organization of my hardware (minus really my aviation hardware which gave me an opportunity to try things out). So I finalized organizing all of Read more
There are two questions that I now need to bring to Van’s on Monday when I get a chance. First off, as you’ll see from the image below, I drilled the wrong hole for the bolt that will hold the fairings on to the airplane between the wings themselves and Read more
I spent just a small amount of time making sure that the holes for the skins and the ribs were already final sized. I picked a few random holes and they all were exactly the size they need to be. I spent alot of my time over the past few Read more
I decided to at least get a peak at how well the skins fit today by clecoing them on. It took a bit of time but I got it on successfully without any major issues.
Not much to state except that I got all of the riveting done for the rear spar. I am done with offset rivet attachments though. You lose power in the offset. I ended up filing down the offset I had so it would fit in the tight area around the Read more
I got the countersinking and the dimpling completed and then primed all of the parts this morning. The ribs that had the flap brackets on them were a bit of a pain. I had my close quarter dimpler and I had to go buy some 4D 1.5″ nails to finish Read more
I had a visit with my local EAA chapter tech today to have him double check how things are going. He didn’t see any issues with the current build progress so that’s always a good sign. The spar doublers showed up today so I got those drilled and deburred. The Read more