Tonight I spent a couple hours drilling the rudder pedal assembly to the fuselage. I began by measuring and marking the skin stiffener 3″ back from the firewall.  I initially marked the hole locations and then made the 2 additional mounting locations. Here you can see the rudder pedal bearing block in the middle position. …

No pictures tonight, but I spent about an hour on the seatback supports. It consists of 3 pieces per side, a spacer, a bent piece of Alclad, and an angle. The assembly is riveted together and allows for 2 intermediate stops for the seatback to adjust the angle of the back. I’m planning on using…

Got a few hours to work on the plane today. I temporarily fit the roll bar.  Here you can see the bracket doesn’t fit one top of the flange. For the tip up canopy it needs to be trimmed.  Here I’ve marked where I need to cut the metal.  This is after I’ve removed the…

Tonight I spend a couple hours in the shop. I began by installing the static ports to the side of the fuselage.  This is the exterior. It sits about 1/32th of an inch higher than the skin. There’s another one on the other side of the fuse.  Here you can see the two static ports…

Tonight I spent about 3 hours working on the rollbar. It’s a very tedious job and requires a lot of precision.  I began by placeing the plate I made last week onto the two rear channels. After measuring and checking the width of the rollbar I drilled the plate to the channels and clecoed it…

This weekend I got in a few hours of work and finished off the tailcone. It was quite a lot of work aligning and measuring the tail wheel mount. It needs to be aligned perfectly so that when I drill vertical stab to the assembly, I meet all the edge distance requirements.  Here’s the weldment…

Another day working on the weldment and the fit of the tail wheel mount. Being a quick build fuselage, all of this work has to be done somewhat out of order.  Here’s the weldment aligned and drilled to match the bulkhead. These were measured and originally drilled to #30 so that I could hold it…

Tonight I spent a couple hours fitting the tail wheel spring mount in the fuse. It is not fun.  The template fits nicely, I then transferred the cutout to the metal and began by drilling the curved part using a unibit. I then proceeded to cut the straighter part using some snips and got it…

This update is for yesterday and today.  I began by finally getting the fuse up on the rotisserie. It was quite the effort but totally worth it.  It’s about 2ft higher off the ground and much easier to work on. Rotating it to the orientation I need will be extremely valuable.  I followed this by…