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
Since I’m waiting on parts to finish the rear spar I decided to check the skins and how they fit. I got them down from storage and removed the lamination from it. I then clecoed on the wing walk doubler skins and that’s when I noticed I had put the Read more
I did a lot of work over the past two days which I’m going to put into two separate posts since they are over different sections, but I’ll mention some of it here as it will be necessary to see why I did some of the other work I mention. Read more
I got all of the deburring done for all of the small parts as well as all of the drilling done on the outboard reinforcement plates. I also drilled the four additional holes on the inboard reinforcement plate into the ribs that are non-standard. I deburred all of the parts Read more
I decided to get another bit of work last night which I should have called it quits because I was mentally done for the night. I ended up cutting the W-1007D reinforcement plates too short so I had to reorder new ones of those. After that mistake I went ahead Read more
I got all of the parts for the outboard aileron brackets completed. I am trying to get other parts completed as well so I can prime them all at the same time. I wish I had a small spray can of some of this primer but it is what it Read more
I finalized the wing ribs today. I decided that I would just rivet all 8 holes of the 13th and 14th rib. I looked through the instructions and didn’t see any reason that there should only be 4 of the 8 holes riveted, so I just finished them all. Hopefully Read more
I finally got some chance to sit down and work on the plane. I’ve been researching a few items and looking on how to tackle some things. I first got the pitot static system tubing ordered. I also got an ELT (who knows why LOL. It probably won’t be installed Read more
I got a bit of time today to get the inboard ribs completely riveted together. I now need to go down the line and rivet/bolt each rib into place on the spar web.
I got a bit of time tonight to work on the plane so I got the four W-1011 ribs rivetted to the flap hinge brackets and ribs together. I only had to redo one rivet as I wasn’t paying attention and the rib backed away from the bracket and left Read more