Jul 10, 2023     Weighed the airplane       Category: Documentation

Also found the lost gear leg fairings!

I'm a little disappointed it didn't come out lighter. No paint. Where did 60 lbs come from? I wonder if the advertised 620lbs included fiberglass tips, wheel pants, gear fairings, radios, elt, antennas, interior.

I used a floor jack to lift each wheel off the ground, then shove a scale under it. Shimmed the wheels to get it dead level.

  Nov 05, 2022     Registration received       Category: Documentation

Someone snatched the tail number Lee T had reserved that combined Eaa chapter 393 and the original builder, Don Baldwin, so I used my initials and the chapter number. Having this makes it feel real.

  Sep 03, 2022     Mailed in the registration application Category: Documentation

FAA's backup is pretty fierce (5 months?) and the plane needs to be registered before certification.

  Jul 18, 2022     Planning the last mile       Category: Documentation

I've managed a lot of projects over my work career, and one of the things you ALWAYS want is an Integrated Master Schedule. There are several tools for doing this, GANNT Charts, CPM, PERT, etc, but I hadn't used ANY of them, until now. Using Google Calendar, I brainstormed all the tasks I could think of needed to get me in the air, broke some of them down into sub-tasks, and started putting them on the calendar. The good news is that even with my limited time available to work on the project, I can get it done this calendar year.

  Jul 20, 2021     Recently Acquired Early Builder's Log Entries And Photos - (2 hours)       Category: Documentation

As Lee Teicheira was going through some documentation received with the Sonex project it was discovered that some previously unknown builder's log entries and photos existed. Those builder's log entries and photos from January 30, 2003 through September 16, 2003 are presented in this entry.