Olan Hodges

It’s been a long time over the past couple of weeks as I have been working on studying for my MBA and I’ve also started my commercial pilot training. I passed my CAX exam this past Friday. But over the past few weeks I’ve been spending some time here and Read more

It took quite a while but I got it all done tonight while listening to an audio book for my MBA class. Next to do the right wing.

I got the W-1025B flap hinge ribs in today so I got them cut, deburred and then drilled all of the holes into the W-1011 ribs to match it. I also got four of the ribs completely deburred and ready for primer. The deburring will take most of the time Read more

I had a bit of spare time tonight so I decided to finish the match drilling for the main spar and the ribs. Went pretty smoothly since all of them were already final sized it seems like. I just had to drill the #12 holes since they didn’t exist. Cailey Read more

I’m waiting on my shipment of parts from Van’s to come in, which should be tomorrow. So I decided with a little bit of time I had yesterday to deburr the remaining brackets for the flaps. Not much work, but at least it is out of the way so when Read more

I got all of the inboard rib work done today this Labor day. I also clecoed all of the ribs to the spar so I can match drill them tomorrow. I built the wing holder which i will modify later to have the carpet on it when the wings are Read more

I finally got through all of the ribs today. Had some sore fingers trying to adjust the ribs but it all came out good!

More time spent working on the ribs. I didn’t get as much time this week as I am working on getting my son back up and driving again. Luckily the wreck didn’t hurt them, but the car is totaled. A friend of mine found a similar Civic which has a Read more

I was only able to get a few ribs fluted tonight and straightened with the 30 minutes I had tonight after doing my preassessment exam for my accounting class for my MBA. These were way better than my horizontal stabilizer ribs. I only had to make a few corrections so Read more