Finished the vertical stabilizer top fairing today. It turned out the best of all the fairings. I guess it’s because of all the prior practice on the other fairings. This is the last of the empennage kit. Nothing more to do but wait for the wings to get here. Should be around the 2nd week [...]
The Vertical stabilizer was attached the other night. Getting a little big for one side of a two car garage. Going to have to get all the little items prepared before I attach the rudder and elevators. Elevator push rod, electric trim motor and attachment, etc. I need to be able to put the elevators [...]
After priming the skeleton, I was able to set my first rivets. It is a little nerve racking doing your first. You’re trying to be perfect. In the end it’s no big deal. Even if you mess up a few, it’s easy to drill them out and set a new one. Got the skeleton all [...]
Today I tore everything down from the test fit and got ready to prime the skeleton. Just like most other builders, I went back and forth on the whole priming issue. Living in Arizona, I can avoid the whole Alodine mess. I could probably get away without priming at all. I settled for somewhere in [...]
Today I received the missing parts from Van’s, so I was able to finish those sections and test fit the vertical stabilizer together for the first time. One thing that I noticed is that it was rather hard getting the holes in the skin to match up with the holes in the center nose rib. [...]
Today I started working on the vertical stabilizer. Right off the bat you have to do some minor fabrication. The spar caps have to be trimmed as specified. No big deal though. While I was doing inventory on the kit I noticed a couple missing parts. One was for the horizontal stabilizer, so not required [...]
