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Rear Seat Floors Riveted
I decided to relisten to General Conference from April 2025 while riveting in the seat floors. Pretty mindless work and gave me a chance to recap conference again before the next conference happens here in October.
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OU Aviation Festival & Baggage Door
Started off the day taking my daughter to the OU Aviation Festival. It is a small festival but it is cool to get to see those in the local aviation community come together and share their love and passion for flight. Cailey enjoyed getting the chance to see the helicopters Read more
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Baggage Door Fully Prepped
I got the baggage door verified that it is already final sized, cut the hinge for the door, debuted and dimpled everything so I can prime it tomorrow after my EAA chapter meeting. Worked at least some today to get my mind off the things in this world.
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Baggage Door Initial Assembly and Fitting
I got a little bit of time to work on the baggage door tonight but I found it difficult to work too much after seeing the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Such a sad day….
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More Wingtip Wiring
I spent the rest of the time after finishing the rear baggage panel starting the wiring for the wing tip. I believe I am going to need some terminal rings but I need to see what size, etc. The grounds I believe need to be attached to the exterior of Read more
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Rear Baggage Panel Complete
Most of the time was spent finishing the rear baggage panel which looks fairly nice! I did need to enlarge a few of the holes for the screws because they were slightly off but I didn’t have to do it too much and the screw heads still cover the entire Read more
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Rear Baggage Panels Drilled and Right Baggage Panel Installed
I worked through all of the drilling for the rear baggage panels and the right baggage panel. The rear was the hardest as you were supposed to cleco the panel after each hole but none of the clecos are the right size and I have all of the sizes for Read more
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Baggage Bulkhead Partially Installed
I got the baggage bulkhead channel installed on the bottom half as they requested. The upper half will happen much later when I get the canopy installed. That took a surprising amount of time due to the difficulty of removing the elevator pushrod assembly. I also got the rear baggage Read more
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Baggage Floor Completed
I had to do some prep work before putting the baggage floors down first. I pulled up the fuel transducer bracket that we riveted in yesterday because I totally forgot to put nutplates in it for the FT-60 LOL Got that done and put it back in. Then Andrew and Read more
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Antenna Doublers Fabricated and Ready for Riveting
It took way longer than I expected to make two doublers but I wanted these things to be super accurate looking. This then took alot of time measuring and drawing lines for every single rivet hole. The drill press made fairly quick work of getting the holes in the first Read more