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  • Lots of work – Canopy and Empenage

    It’s been a while since I’ve made an update…work and life have taken a priority over the last few months, but I’ve made some progress here and there. Yesterday and today I spent some time working on the elevator and the autopilot servo pushrod installation. These three pushrods are kind of hard to reach and…

  • Vertical Stabilizer

    I spent a few hours in the hangar to finish up the vertical stabilizer mounting to the fuselage. I started by fabricating the shims that go between the front spar of the vertical stab and the horizontal stab mounting bracket. I then drilled them using the prepunched holes. After measuring everything was straight and the…

  • Vertical Stabilizer

    Tonight after work I spent a couple hours working on the vertical stab. Before mounting it to the fuselage, the forward spar had to have 5/8th of an inch trimmed off. Here is the spar after trimming and filing the edges smooth. I then mounted the stab to the fuselage and clamped it in place.…

  • Drilled Horizontal Stab

    This weekend I spent time getting the elevator horns drilled for the pushrod and the horizontal stab drilled and mounted to the fuselage. Britney was in town visiting me this weekend so, of course, I asked her to help me work on the plane. She has been very encouraging and really wants to help on…

  • Plane Has a New Home

    After three and a half years in the garage. I finally moved the plane to its new home in my hangar! There was probably a lot more work I could have done before moving it, but there were some circumstances that dictated I needed to move to the airport. It started by first getting a…

  • Flap motor housing

    First off, I got myself a hangar! I’ve been checking the hangars at the San Martin airport for a while, and finally got in contact with them and got the hangar last Wednesday! It’s a nice T hangar that’s north facing (shaded all day), and has plenty of room for the project. I’ll be migrating…

  • Modified Wing Rear Spars

    Today I finally got off my lazy butt and got back in the garage. It’s been more than a month since I’ve touched the project. I started by making a giant list of all the tasks that I could think of in order to finish the project. The goal being that I can estimate effort…

  • Wing skins

    Today I had my friend Norio over to help me out a bit on the project. After a few hours of catching up and some good bbq we spent some time in the shop. No pictures tonight, but we got the final wing skins dimpled and nearly ready to install. Left to do is a…

  • Propeller

    Today I installed my beautiful MT propeller! It’s a huge milestone! I received it last Thursday, and I had to finish a couple other things that needed to be installed behind the starter ring, namely the alternator mounting bracket. I also took this opportunity to pull the starter and grind off the mounting boss that…

  • Received my prop!

    Today it was Christmas in May! I got my prop delivered by American Propeller out of Redding, CA. I ordered a three blade MT Prop. It’s a composite, constant speed propeller. Tracy from American Propeller did a great job unloading it from the truck and placing it in the shop. I had to make some…