Thanks to Sam Hurley for helping us, we needed 3 people! It’s a good idea to try putting the wings on before you fabric cover them. It helps you remember anything that is missing! No wings yet One wing on The plane will tip over with only one wing attached. Both wings on!
Tested landing gear, cut slots in wing cuffs – 7/14/17
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•Today we tested the landing gear and cut slots in the wing cuffs for the strut plate. `
Drilling light holes in wingtips and wing finishing – 7/4/2017
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•Today we drilled the light holes in the wingtips. We are using Aveoflash LED strobe wingtip lights and they provide you a pattern. Made a new tail jack from a Harbor Freight Transmission jack. Also cleaned off the workbench, usually it is piled with stuff…
Wing wiring and Anti-compression sleeves – 6/25/217
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•We noticed that if you put the recommended torque of 60-70 inch lbs on the fuselage tube bolts, that they start to deform. We used a clamp to make them round again and created some anti compression sleeves for the bolts so that we could torque them. We did this with plastic tubes. We should…
Put Fuselage in hull – 5/26/17
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•We decided to put the fuselage in the hull again temporarily. It will need to come out again.
Picked up newly painted hull – 3/26/17
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•Our hull was finished being painted so we transported it home. Total cost for getting the hull painted was $3K. This involved a lot of labor as the hull needed a lot of filler work per the painter. This is the paint we used