Today was a milestone day, the joining of the two fuselage parts and installation of the cabin frame. But how did we get there? Well, we started off with some help and not just any old help, but my wife’s…
Firewall Session 1 (1.5 hr)
Yesterday Teri and I went to the hangar to mate the fuselage parts together finally but it didn’t work out, Teri got a nasty scratch from a skin edge and so we called it quits. So with that put off…
Anything but joining the fuselage (2 hr)
It has been an unseasonably hot week here in the desert, it is only March and we are in the mid-90s. Hopefully this will go away for a while, we are not ready for it yet. If we are ever…
Engine Switch
For over a year now I’ve been assuming that I’ll be putting the Viking Aircraft Engine on the end of my plane. For the most part it seems like the proven Honda technology at a great price (for aviation). There…
A Few Different Things (2.5 h)
Didn’t spend much time in the hangar this weekend but the 80+ heat was a reminder that my building days are soon coming to a pause, or at least my building days in comfort. I’d been reviewing the DVD during…
Flaperon Controls (3.5 hr)
I’ve been in a funk recently with the build, quite discouraged by the lack of information on how to finish the plane, or even in what order to do things. Trivial matters like antennas, where to put transponder boxes and…