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  • Finished elevator

    Tonight I spent a few hours finishing off the left elevator. After spending the last couple days organizing and rearranging the shop with the wings and fuselage, I finally got around to finishing off the last few things on the elevator (minus the fiberglass).  I rolled the last segment of the leading edge and inserted…

  • Inventory

    Tonight I spent a few hours to inventory my kit. I went through the boxes and went through all the different bags. There are A LOT of parts!  12 pages of parts. I also made some more room to move around in the garage. I have to do some clean up before I can start…

  • Wing stand

    Tonight I spent sometime cleaning up the fuselage crate and cutting the wood into manageable pieces for clean up. I also got my wingstand built. It needs some modifications but it’s done. I’m going to add some casters to it to make it mobile and to raise it up a bit too. 

  • Received Fuse and Wings

    Today was a big day! I went to the service terminal and loaded up my fuse and wings on a uhaul and brought them home.  I got a 20′ truck and went to the terminal, the ABF guys were really nice and in about 3 minutes both crates were in the truck and I was…

  • Left elevator leading edges

    Over the last few days I’ve been making slow progress, but nevertheless, my fuselage and wings are arriving tomorrow, so I have to finish off the empennage and make room in the garage for the plane.  Here you can see the first two outboard sections of the leading edge rolled, this is by far the…

  • QB kit

    Yesterday was a good day! I got a call from Van’s saying my QB fuselage and wings are here and ready to go! So I paid the final payment and it’s now in the queue for shipping. I have maybe 3-4 hours left on the empennage (minus fiberglass) and should get that knocked out this…

  • Trim tab

    Last night I spent a couple hours on the trim tab. I’m deviating from the plans and I removed the tabs from the elevator and trim tab and I’ll be making riblets. I’ve seen several people attempt to make the trim tab following the plans and it can be very difficult. By going down this…

  • First passenger!

    Not much building has been going on the last couple weeks. After getting my license I’ve finally taken my first passenger up: my sister! It was a windy morning but it was a good first experience, it doesn’t get much bumpier than what we were flying in. She flew like a champ though, held her…

  • Busy week

    This week has been a very intense week, but I’ll start with the news that I passed my PPL checkride on Wednesday! It was a grueling 8 hour day including hour long flights to and from the examiners airport, and 2 hours for the checkride itself, 3 hours for the oral exam! But at the…

  • Fiberglass tips

    Tonight I spent about an hour on the vertical stab and rudder fiberglass tips.     Here’s the rudder tip riveted to the rudder, it will be filled and sanded to smooth out all the joints.     VS tip riveted on, the opening will be filled and the joint also filled and glassed to…