Month: March 2014

Engine Arrival!!

Last week I got a call from my brother in law asking how my day was (it was meh) and he said it was going to get better because my engine had arrived at his ex-firm’s loading bay. This was…

Wings Fitting Prep (1 hr)

Before the wings can be fitted to the fuselage there are a couple of things to take care of. First, the strut fittings and jury struts need to be primed And secondly the jury strut angles need to be attached…

Rudder Install (1h 30m)

It was almost four years ago that I started out on this project, with no idea if I had the skills to do it (and still don’t!), and today I got to see those first fruits of my labour mature…

Seats (1h 30m)

I had wanted to get back to the tail this weekend but the replacement gussets from Zenith had not arrived so I switched my attention to the seats. Although the seats won’t go in until quite near the end it…