Today is the second anniversary of picking up a drill and making my first hole in the rudder. I now have 167 hours invested into the project which is interesting because I did 80 in the first year, too. I…
Month: July 2012
Top Skin Drilling (1 hr)
Another hot and humid day, so only managed an hour but that’s one less hour to go. To start today I unclecoed the skins so that I could put the top skin l-angles inside that act as stiffeners. Next I…
Trailing Edge Setting, Top Skins (1 hr)
Still making progress little by little… today I set the location of the trailing edge by measuring the distance from the edge of the radius to the centre hole in the flaperon arm. The instructions have changed from Edition 2…
Flaperon Arms and Top Skins (1hr 15m)
Teri helped me turn the wing assembly over so that I can start on the top. I started out (with Teri’s help) by clecoing the two top skins to the ribs through their pre-drilled holes. I then went to set…
Bottom Skins Riveted (4h 30m)
No sooner did I write that it is now way too hot to build planes, I spent a large part of July 4th in the garage in what felt like 100 degree humidity. It was only 94 or so though,…