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Builder Name:Patrick Bruce   -  
Project:   Bearhawk - Patrol   -   VIEW REPORTS
Total Hours:593
Total Flight Time:5
Start/Last Date:Mar 02, 2023 - No Finish Date
 
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Jun 05, 2021     Plane disassembled and trucked home - (3 hours) Category: General
Rod and Mike Hand helped me truck it all back home. We did not get the ailerons and flap cables final rigging done because I had to get out of the hangar. I will do it on final,assembly.
 
Jun 01, 2021     Drill wing spars and struts - (17 hours)       Category: General
Airplane was assembled in Don B's Hangar at the Airdrie Airport. Fuselage placed on a purpose built table. Tristan helped me level it front to back and side to side. Wings placed on stands to hold them at the right height and dihedral and incidence angles. Drilled wing spars and spar attach points together in stages and then reamed to final size. Aiden helped me build and install the struts to lock in the dihedral.


 
May 14, 2021     Moved to airport hangar for wing drilling - (4 hours) Category: General
Rod S and Mike H graciously assisted me in bringing both wings, ailerons, flaps, struts, and fuselage out to Airdrie Airport. We borrowed space in a hangar of a friend to do this. The wings are now sitting on the wing stands. There is some lumber there for building saw horses for the fuselage to lift it up to the height of the wings (just over my head). A sawhorse is needed since the gear is not yet on the fuselage.and I want to be able to walk under the wing while working. It looks like the main spar will be drilled from the front, which will require a 12 “ extension be welded to the end of my 3/8” reamer and the drill bit which is 1/64 under that. The aft spar is accessible from the back without issue, so the 6” bits will work there.
 
Nov 05, 2020     Bearhawk Canada owner visit - (1.5 hours) Category: General
Mike Silvernagel from Bearhawk Canada came over to meet me and Look over the project. He was full of good information. I also got a lot of confidence from his approval of work done so far. He had specific tips for covering the following: covering the inside of the cabin (consider oracover for the inside), how and where to make inspection ports in the fuselage, placing another turnbuckle in the flap system so that both flaps can be tensioned together if desired, (I can do it from behind the baggage department anyway, but must be done one at a time), fuel supply tubing, brake pedal geometry, seating, stick, wing controls, landing gear attachment (put the rod end in sooner rather than later) wingtips, control stick, seat, cabin floor, and a bunch of other items. Very helpful and motivating.
 
Aug 14, 2020     Bearhawk Field trip to Villeneuve       Category: General
Kieran flew me up to Villeneuve to see Steve W's Patrol. Beautiful! Also saw another Bearhawk (4-place) in the final stages of construction.


 
Jun 06, 2020     51% and precover inspections - (3 hours) Category: General
The MDRA came from Calgary today with a new trainee MDRA inspector. They did the 2 inspections with very few comments, all positive. Builder portion came up to 76% by their logic. Im cleared to cover at my discretion, although I am a long way from doing so. Mostly, I just wanted to be able to rivet the wing closed, and get the other one on the rotisserie. I need to run the nav light wires and install a pitot tube first. I got the PET cable loom today and prepared it for installation with a string inside to pull wires through.
 
Apr 13, 2020     Project video intro/update - (1 hour) Category: General
A series of videos describing the reasons behind the decision to build, a tour of our shop, an introduction to the kit, and a progress report on work thus far. I sense that most of the pictures and comments I've provided thus far are too specific and detailed to be of interest to anyone who isn't building a Patrol. I am hoping to develop the blog into a format which might provide value for a more general audience, and also serve to add some context to the detailed entries.

https://youtu.be/DWrUfv5D9Zk
https://youtu.be/AIQxLDTrWSg
https://youtu.be/41ZczBp1PSs
https://youtu.be/ry0s405Hefg
https://youtu.be/m-NC3yaVNKM
 


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