Today was quite a unique collection of tasks. One tended to flow right into the other, so it really didn’t bother me too much to keep working and before I knew it, I had put in a solid 3 hours on the tailcone. First things first, I went over every… Read More »Tailcone miscellany
Only put in about an hour today, but it felt like 12. I had to fight with crappy tools, which, again if you’ve read anything I’ve written you know how I feel about that. Drill bits, no matter how nice, on a long enough timeline are disposable. Treat them as… Read More »My longerons eat drill bits
A lot of work today, but once again not a ton that looks different. I have spent a ton of time just creating parts, shaping them, lining them up, clamping in place, and match drilling holes. I will however note that one piece has turned out beyond expectations. Based upon… Read More »Longeron perfection
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
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
“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