SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, IS LAUGHING It really makes you wonder doesn’t it? Is there an engineer or technical writer somewhere having a delightful chuckle at our expense? They can write three pages full of text and images that describe in great detail how to assemble an complex aircraft. I am able… Read More »That’s great – now undo it all
I know I’ve been excited about this all along, but today it snapped into pretty clear focus. I’m building an airplane. Seriously. One of my favorite images so far is this one below looking aft down the tailcone. You can see the stringers that I made and match drilled, the… Read More »It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… well it’s a plane
“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
Plain and simple: fall has been crazy. I have loved almost every minute of it, but it has been packed. Lots of swimming events with the kids, heading out of town for long weekends, and just the usual kind of fun that we like to have in the late summer… Read More »Trim tabs and parts are in
It is always nice to be reminded of the reason you undertake a challenge such as building an airplane, and today was one of those days. Even in the face of monotonous deburring, having my family around to help out not only took the edge off (deburring pun! Boom!) but… Read More »Bring in the deburring experts
After a long week of not being able to put too much time into the plane, I was able to really hunker down this weekend and set my hands to the elevators. I was pretty much able to get them completely assembled and match drilled (but not the skins –… Read More »Elevator Day
I think I will have built this plane three times over before I’ve actually completed it the first time. I had the entire HS clecoed together, match drilled, and ready to roll, except of course that it wasn’t riveted together. So naturally you have to take it all apart, deburr… Read More »Horizontal stabilizer deburring