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  • More Finishing

    I added some more epoxy and filler to the tail fiberglass tip fairings, and while that was curing I spent some time wrapping up additional finish items. I started by marking the wing root fairings for a 3/16th” gap. I marked the fairing with some black sharpie, and then used a 3/8″ bolt to score…

  • Interior Finishing & Fiberglass Start

    I began wrapping up the interior controls installation by adding all the necessary washers (which are pain to install) to the Aileron Pushrod – to – Control Stick attachments. This included tightening the jam nuts on all the pushrods and ensuring that a sufficient number of threads are available on either end to ensure that…

  • Miscellaneous Tasks

    February has been a bit of a slower month in making big progress. I’ve spent a few evenings working on several different things. I got some new shelving units from an old storage unit that my mom was getting rid of, and they sat in the hangar for a few weeks before I finally got…

  • Tidied up the Wings

    Today I spent most of the day working on a bunch miscellaneous items. I started by fabricating my aileron stops. I am using a small delrin bushings around the aileron pushrod spacer to act as the stops. After fabricating and installing I measured the deflection angles – I have 28 degs up and 16 degs…

  • ZipTips – Installed Wingtips

    Happy New Year! I wrapped up 2023 and kicked off 2024 by completing the wingtip installation. I am using the Aveo Engineering ZipTip Premier wingtips that have integrated lights. These include Landing, Taxi, Nav and Strobe lights with a rear position/strobe light as well. They recently announced a completely new and upgraded version – Vegas.…

  • Classic Aero Interior

    I spent some time over the weekend beginning the installation of my Classic Aero Designs Sportsman II interior with Aviator seats. There are two things I want to call out about Classic Aero – 1. the customer service and overall experience working with them over the last couple years (ordering, receiving, installation) has been great.…

  • More Wiring

    Now that the wings are installed I spent a couple hours working on some remaining wiring tasks inside the fuselage. I drilled two holes through my center section (with the guidance from this post on vansaircraft.com) in order to route my autopilot and right wingtip lighting harnesses forward of the spar. The left side wingtip…

  • Finished Wings

    After rigging the ailerons and flaps and making sure everything was aligned, I needed to remove the wings one more time in order to finish up some critical items. The to-do list included finishing the Root Fairing seals and drilling two more holes for the Pitot and AOA tubes (for the left wing). The Root…

  • Rigged Flaps and Ailerons (and new Canopy struts)

    With the wings on the fuselage I got the flaps onto the wings so I could fabricate the flap pushrods. I started by cutting the pushrod stock to length. I then tapped both ends of the rods for 1/4-28 rod-end bearings. The plans call to use a CM-4S bearing. The problem with this is that…

  • Installed Wings

    This weekend I hit a huge milestone – my buddy Norio and I installed the wings on the plane! We started by first leveling the plane to make sure we had the ability to, as well as thinking it would make sliding the spars into the fuselage easier. Once the plane was level, we began…