First things first, it feels good to get back out in the garage hangar for a nice long session on the plane. I’ve been itching to get back at the tailcone and start putting the stringers and skins in place. It feels a little odd to look around my shop… Read More »Drilling (and melting) some holes
No posts for a while, I know. Exclusively because there also hasn’t been any work done in a while. This is just excruciatingly cold and has been for over a week. I have a fully insulated garage with multiple heaters out there and I just can’t make it happen. We… Read More »But at least there isn’t any lightning
Not that you don’t know what wings are or where they are located, just go with me on this one. I have been putting off the task of ordering the wings for a while for a few reasons. First, I have really struggled with whether or not to go Quick… Read More »Ordered the wing kit!
“FUN” WITH STRINGERS Today was a rare occasion of just having to gut it out. In some of the builder logs that I read, some people really enjoy the straightforward task of making stringers or ribs for various parts and pieces, but for some reason these stringers just drove me… Read More »If you don’t have anything nice to say, it’s probably about stringers
Today was a good motivating day for me. I have finally put the never-ending elevators up in storage (I’ll have to get a picture of how I’m storing things put up here as well – perhaps that can help someone else along the way trying to make this happen in… Read More »It’s beginning to look a lot like… well… not much
What a marathon, but it really feels great to have one of the first moving parts of the airplane done. When I first began the elevators I had no idea how involved they would become, but this truly was one of the more involved and challenging parts of the build… Read More »Elevators = DONE
After much back and forth, I decided that for the process of attaching the trim tabs to the piano hinge and subsequently to the elevators, I needed to make a call to the bullpen and bring out a real ace. I think you’ll see I made precisely the right call.… Read More »Called in a real trim tab expert
Lots of action today in a pretty good sized build session, so let’s jump right in. I started by looking back from the very beginning of the elevators section of the manual to make sure that I have accomplished every task along the way since I had jumped around a… Read More »Two steps forward, one step back into tank sealant
With the rudder squarely in my rear view mirror, I knew the day would come again soon whereby I would be expected to roll some leading edges and rivet them together. This was a particularly challenging skill for me to embrace last time and I ended up drilling out a… Read More »They see me rollin’… leading edges
I’m glad I won’t have to say that, or at least to a profound degree at some point in my future (why do I also feel a solid dose of Karma coming my way just for even tempting fate with this phrase…). This weekend I spent two days at an… Read More »If I knew then what I know now…