Month: July 2011

Day 57: Skin Re-assembly (2 hrs)

The heat isn’t getting any better so I thought I would just put the skins onto the spar but it turned out I needed to do a little bit more first. I started off by putting some corrosion protector on…

Day 56: Re-assembly Prep (3 hr)

It’s hot (have I mentioned that yet) and so its a case of just doing a little when I feel like it and so today was some time to get things ready for rivet time. It started with finishing the…

Instrument Panel I Like

One of the fun things we get to do with building our own plane is to choose an instrument panel that we like. On the Zenith website someone posted a picture of their panel and I think this is almost…

Wings Arrival (for real)

I took the day off today so that my brother in law could bring the wings kit around and I could unpack it and put it in the dog run. He arrived early in the morning with the crate on…