Jun 30, 2021     Time Flies, All of June - (51 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Basically we have been working 4 days a week since summer started. Clocking about 17 hours per week.
It is too much of a pain to correctly log everything, so I will just have this entry account for everything in June.

We did major progress on the fuselage and made good progress. However towards the last week of June, we ran in to problems with organization and finding stuff. We have 3 copies of section 29 floating around the hangar. Really a big fallibility of paper plans. Next year, the new group of students will start out with an online version using Kami to combat this problem. There also various advantages to using online plans such as taking pictures of where parts are located, where tools were left the day before, etc. Hours were wasted because of organization.

There were also issues with rushing. Trying to get a part done because multiple sections are waiting on it, that is when mistakes happen. Wrong rivets used, wrong order of the plans (could be fixed with online plans), etc. There are multiple teams, but only 1 fuselage. Thus when 1 person is installing their part, the others cannot work on their next step. So they skip around steps and that caused various issues.

It is unlikely that we will get the plane done by EAA Air Venture, hopefully it will be finished by November.

  Jun 07, 2021     Worked Category: Fuselage

Worked at hangar

  Jun 06, 2021     Worked - (4 hours) Category: Fuselage

Worked at the hangar

  May 24, 2021     Moved To New Place - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage: Just deburred today. Did some parts prep.
Wings: Was at airport.
Holden Glass: Helped organize and then did some deburring with fuselage.

This is our last day at HUHS. We will be moving to Larry's Hangar next week. All of the stuff was carted, organized, and shipped via cars.

  May 17, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): Continued mass riveting on the skin. Harsh managed to break the solid metal on a pneumatic riveter in a very ironic time: The head of the rivet gun just fell off while a mentor was lecturing Harsh on not making mistakes (Ooops my bad... I was kind of going fast rather than safe). We proceeded to hand rivet for the rest of the time. We are still waiting on the bolt.
Clean Up Crew (Richard Glidden + Sophie Farrel): The mentors and us organized and cleaned everything. The ground is no longer a mess of mandrills and nutplates and metal dust. Random tools and wrenches aren't sitting next to parts. Really well done Richard and Sophie. Appreciate it.
Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): Dry fitted the wing tip skins. We also did some cleaning of the wing. We have "completed" all the skins on the wing. --> atleast dry fitted
Josh Weiss: Worked on the longerons. It is part of the sideskins.

Mentors: We are transitioning to the hangar, but we are also transitioning to working on the engine and other parts. As we start finishing these sub assemblies it is time to start looking at the plans to see how these parts go together.

  May 16, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): Holden and Brady fluted the wing tip brackets to match the shape of the wing tip. Izzy and finished bending all the flanges. Maggie and Holden also put in the aft part of the wing tip. Holden finished the lighting wiring. There was 1 incorrect rivet that we will take out next time.
Fuselage team (Rebecca Colwell): We are still missing 1 screw on the fuselage screen, however we were unable to get a new screw. We went ahead with the fuselage skin and started riveting it to the piece. We broke the skin with the tool, we deburred it and then clecoed it to the fuselage. We also attached doublers in the skin. These doublers will add strength to this part of the plane because this is where the landing gear is. When the plane lands these reinforcements will prevent the skin from buckling. (Mentors: This was added in later iterations of the design of the RV 12. Earlier versions did not have this and had some landing problems)
Josh Weiss: I dimpled and did 28 nutplates for a part for the fuselage. I also worked on the longeron pieces. I had to use a saw to cut off some of the edges. This part will go along the fuselage.

Mentors: We also recieved the avionics.

  May 10, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

We did not have a meeting yesterday because of mother's day.
Harsh Patel: I worked on fuselage, and we had the "simple" task of screwing some screws on. Due to my error, I over tightened it and striped the threads on one of them. Throughout the entire session, multiple mentors and students just fixed my mistake. Oops.
Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): Had some struggles with the screws being on the wrong side. After unscrewing them, we deburred the bottom fuselage skin.
Wings (Maggie Colwell): Izzy bent some the corner skins. Maggie set up various parts and got the brackets on correctly (they were on backwards last time).
Lighting (Holden Glass): I worked on various electrical stuff for the lighting section. I got the molex connector pins on. I also worked on the $300 lights.
L---> Holden's dad and grandparents came in today! They saw what we were doing.

  May 03, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Wings (Maggie Colwell): Added on the wing tip ribs. We did those right. We put the skins on as well. We did that right as well. We messed up on the wing handle attach bracket. We got those backward and bent them kinda wrong. It is essential to know what radius of bending. This varies on thickness, type, etc. The FAA has an entire book on this.
Holden Glass: Put the wiring and the connectors on the ends of the wiring for the lights. The lenses are completed as well.
Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell + Josh Weiss): I worked on the skin. We put the nutplates on the skin outside and we also put in the edge skins. We also deburred some skins.

Today was the day that new members could take a look at what we do! We had 11 new members show up! Looking forward for next year.

Thanks Nash for taking the professional photos! Thanks Mrs. Colwell for the group photos and getting me in too!

  May 02, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell + Josh Weiss): A lot of major parts came together today. The fuselage ribs were riveted, a few smaller brackets were also riveted. Josh's and Rebecca's work was combined. Major progress done.
Wings (Maggie Colwell): Worked on getting the landing light attachment brackets on and worked on other various hardware.
Lighting (Holden Glass): I worked on prepping the brackets and the support structure of the light. Brady worked on the electrical side of prepping the lights.

  Apr 26, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): We riveted the nutplates on the seat pan assembly, left and right sides. We attached this assembly to the main fuselage piece. We also found that some rivets that were specified in the plans were too short. So we used a size that was .5 larger.
Wings (Maggie Colwell): Riveted 2 spots were forgot to rivet a few months ago. We cleaned the bins and stuff.
Lighting (Holden Glass): Worked with the lens attachment brackets. I worked on getting ready to get the lens down to final shape. I will use the pneumatic dremel to trim it down.
Mentors (John Semenke): They gave us this metal L shape piece. Then vans gave us the metal part and told us to cut a diagnol. However they didn't give any dimensions to cut it. We later found out that they did this to reduce the weight of the fuel injected engine. The original carbureted engine was lighter, so they had to modify it a little in order to have the same weight.
Mentor (Wayne Wendorf): Showed how to measure AN bolts and talked a little bit about them.

Harsh Patel: Congrats on the popularity of this page! We are getting over 40 views per week! This is great and we hope to inspire more schools to do a program like this.

  Apr 25, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage Ribs (Rebecca Colwell): Worked on combining the individual ribs into sub assemblies, and then those sub assemblies into a main piece that we will attach to the fuselage. This part is the part of the plane that you sit on.
Fuselage main part (Josh Weiss): Deburred pieces for the fuselage and assembled a part for the fuselage.
Fuselage parts prep (Harsh Patel): Initially worked on assembling a section of ribs. Afterwards Rebecca made a bigger part using those ribs. We then worked on prepping and cutting parts within section 21.
Wings (Maggie Colwell): We put in the access panel for the stall warn system. We riveted the interior stuff and then put the cover on. Some of us continued to deburr some parts for the sides.
Lighting (Holden Glass): I made attach brackets for the lenses. Since we didn't have these, I had to use a piece of aluminum and custom fabricate this.

  Apr 19, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Wings (Maggie Colwell): Continued mass skinning. Hundreds of rivets done, only hundreds more to go.
Lighting (Holden Glass): Helped a little bit with the wings team. I also countersunk the lighting plexy glass panels.
Fuselage 1 (Rebecca Colwell): Continued work on brackets by dimpling, countersinking some hardware and installing nutplates. For some of the nutplates they weren't predimpled so we had to dimple them.
Fuselage 2 (Josh Weiss): Worked on some of the panels that go on the fuselage.
Harsh Patel: I got the online version of the fuselage plans and they work great on a Chromebook. Chromebooks are convertible laptop/tablets with inbuilt pens. Very handy when using a pdf processing tool like Kami. The only question remains is if students will use it.
Mentors (Howard Kaney): Discussed the fishbone diagram with the students. We did recieve the finishing kit. After looking at yesterday's feedback, we will try organizing the tools and parts better.

  Apr 18, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): We were working on the fuselage ribs. We dimpled, riveted, and installed nut plates. We dry fitted sections of the ribs. Some parts prepping and countersinking. We worked with a part at weird angle and had to countersink instead of dimple with a nut plate. Fairly redundant, but productive. Finding the special rivets and nut plates was much easier with new kami ledger.
Wings (Maggie Colwell): Got the wing walk doublers (extra support for when you walk on the wing) ready to rivet. Brady worked with pro seal and sealed the gap between 2 wing skins to make it water tight. For riveting we had a lot of trouble getting the holes on the 2 layers of skins and ribs to align.
Lighting (Holden Glass): I finished fabricating the brackets to get on there. I used a pneumatic dremel to cut and fabricate.
Harsh Patel: I set up the parts storage ledger on Kami: https://kami.app/AyN-SVj-duC. This greatly improved the efficiency of finding parts. I will try digitalizing more of the instructions to make this more efficent.

  Apr 12, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): Today we accomplished putting more stuff on the ribs and dimpling. We had some issues on the angle of the dimpler. Sophie and Harsh cut a small angle part using a Dremel tool. The mentors helped them with cutting that.
Lighting (Holden Glass): Worked on making the plexy glass covers the lights on the wing.
Parts Prep (Damion Cherney): I had to make 2 more nutplates for the lighting section since Vans only gave 2 of the 4 nutplates needed. Making these parts from scratch is rough.
Mentors: There is 2 depths on the dimper, one size was 120* which we don't really need on the plane. We labeled it and put this die in quarantine. Instead of using a dremel we can use a little nibbler tool to eat small pieces of metal out.

  Apr 11, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Sunday meetings will now start at 4 pm and go to 8 pm.
Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): We worked on prepping the ribs for the fuselage. We got all the hardware and parts riveted on to the 8 ribs. These will be attached to the lower section of the fuselage.
Fuselage 2 (Josh Weiss): We resumed work on the part where we were waiting for the back ordered parts. We riveted a bunch of pieces to the firewall.
Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): We finished riveting the main skins on the left wing. We started working on the wing walk doubler which is where your feet will go when you get on to the cockpit. We just have to prime the mating surfaces between the wing walk doubler and the surfaces. I(Holden Glass) started working on the lighting part. If you use a normal drill bit on the plexy glass, it would just ruin it. I got the correct drill bit to drill this substance.
Mentors: We had a journalist from the Milwaukee Sentinel. We are also going to recieve the finishing kits soon. Richard and I fitted the bulkhead onto the empennage. We were thinking that over the summer, we could schedule 20 - 24 hours and have 3 - 4 people at a time. We can't have 12 people on a single put together fuselage. Smaller groups will work better. We also had a veteran 3 time plane builder Barry Burnstein. He has built 2 rv 12 so far.

The professional looking photos are from the journalist.

  Apr 05, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Wings (Holden Glass): Did riveting on wing skins. With 4 people doing specific tasks, it was efficient.
Fuselage (Rebecca Colwell): Prepped parts and started some sub assemblies.
--> Harsh Patel: In 3 hours, I did 2 rivets. I tried doing a cherry rivet correctly at around 5:15 pm, and I messed up on the squeezing. In order to drill it out I needed a drill bit smaller than the hole size, to have some tolerance for drilling. Adam Rehberger found the size #43 at 6:20 pm in the wrong spot. An hour wasted trying to find something that wasn't in the right spot. Then 2 mentors and I worked at doing it correctly. We finished at 7:40 pm. We were very thorough and made sure we did it right. The cherry rivets weren't tightly riveted, so they just spun around when a drill was on it. The other side was so mangled, that a plier couldn't properly grasp it. It took a while.
Richard Glidden: Went to airport to match drill some holes on a part with the tail cone.
Mentors: We decided the defect on the wing skin is just cosmetic and we are . We are going to be talking to this guy who is on his 3rd rv12. He will come and help organize how to get all the parts together. Do not put cleco boxes or anything on top of the wing skins because when they have enough weight they can mar the surface.

  Apr 01, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (8 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Finished Bulkhead section with Harsh Patel (me), Adam Ingraham, and some Richard. We need to connect a part of it to the tail cone at larry's hangar.
Wings (Holden Glass + maggie): Started second side of wing skins while brady prepped more skins.
Rollback (richard glidden): Studied plans and did little progress.

116 days until EAA! Also over 30% of the total time spent on the plane is from the last week.
We will also be showcasing our plane at the balloon rally on August 7. We will have our own booth there while others do hot air balloons and children can do young eagles flights!

  Mar 31, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (8 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Flaperon (Harsh Patel): I didn't do much, Adam came earlier and finished the whole thing before I could get here.
Wings (Holden Glass): Riveted 265 more rivets, had Harsh help me. Went very smooth.
Rollback (Richard Glidden): Continued work on the various aspects of making the rollback including riveting, clecoing, and prepping parts. No major assemblies were done.

Our Airplane number is N18HH. Also we have 117 days until EAA.

  Mar 30, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (8 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Wings (Holden Glass): Did 365 rivets on wing skins solo for 5+ hours.
Flaperon (Harsh Patel): Was the only guy on team here. I basically followed Rebecca's steps from yesterday and mastered riveting over 4 hours.
Rollback (Richard Glidden): Sophie Farrel and Richard worked on and off for the past 8 hours. Got a lot of the parts prepped, counter sunk, and some more.

There were a total of 4 students here today. It started with 1, (Holden Glass). There are 118 days until EAA. The last 2 days account for 15% of our total build time. Got a lot of work done.

  Mar 29, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (8 hours)       Category: Fuselage

We started at 12 to 8 pm
Rollback (Richard Glidden): We countersinked the main frame of the rollback. We tapped some of the holes.
Flaperon (Rebecca Colwell): We found out that we should mark out the holes to not rivet. Once again, we had misdone rivets. On the other hand we got 1/4 of all the skins on. It was kinda tight on the clecos.
Wings (Holden Glass): Worked on getting the skins on the ribs. We pretty much depleted the entire size 30 cleco supply we had.

Harsh's observation: There was a battle for hording clecos against the flaperon team and the wings team.

119 days until EAA

  Mar 22, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Wings Skins: We only have 2 wing skins left to debur.
Holden: We are going to dimple and prep the structure of the wing and start with dry fitting. (Holden Glass looked over future steps while the
Rollback (Richard Glidden): We are done deburring, and now we are dry fitting and looking over plans. This part is a stiff roll bar that can protect the pilot if the plane rolls over. We have a lot of machine countersinking coming up.
Flaperon: We fixed yesterday's mistakes and riveted everything correctly. We had some ups and downs with a faulty pop riveter, slow but steady progress.
Fuselage: When we put the wings in there will be a slot for the wings to be attached. It took 20 rivets on each side. We got our back ordered parts so we were able to pick up where we left off before we started the fuel tank.

We have 125 days to completely finish the plane.

  Mar 21, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuel tank: done.
Rollbar: went through plans, deburred
Flaperon: Dry fit entire thing. Put steel bar on wrong side so have to undo counterweight.
Wings: Holden worked on electrical wiring of wings. Rest deburred.
Entry done by Sophie

  Mar 15, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1: At larry's hangar
Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): Continued deburring wing skins and did some wiring.
Fuselage 2 (Richard Glass): Worked on roll over structure, part of the bulkhead.
Wings 2 (Rebecca Colwell): Worked on the flaperons. Riveted all the stuff correctly this time and fixed previous mistakes.
Mentors: The back ordered parts are coming, Larry Sullivan talked to vans.
We got a twitter account to boost publicity.

  Mar 14, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Congratulations Team, we got our 100th hour today!

Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): We figured out the stall warning horn. Everything is screwed in place. We put in the fancy rivet (to quote brady) to hold the angle of attack system. Once you have riveted the "fancy rivet" you have to pound the mandrill out. Other than that we just did the wiring for the lights. Something special about this aircraft is that we have a landing light on both sides rather than 1. The rest of us did a lot of deburring on the wing skins.
Fuselage (Josh Weiss): We scuffed out the fuel tank to prepare it for sealant. That is scrubbing some rough paper on it to get the sealant on. We used tape to make sure we did the right places. Tomorrow we can will take it to the airport and mess with this nasty sealant stuff. It takes a while to cure, we will be doing this is at the airport because we don't want to mess up this shop. It takes a week to cure.
Seatbacks (Richard Glidden): We cut the hinge pins 2 inches. This hinge is for changing the angle of the back seat. The pivet pins at the bottom are for the ejection system. Amber used the safety pliers to put a safety line to secure a part of the seat back. The safety pliers are locked on to the line, and then you can pull a plug to spin the pliers. You do this to keep bolts and screws from being unscrewed. These are completely finished.
Flaperon (Rebecca Colwell): Double check everything with everyone... we had to take out a lot of rivets and did 2 steps. A group (*cough* me) decided to go ahead and rivet the next step. However they riveted the wrong holes...
Mentor (Rick Hildenburg? ): Explained pito static system. The ram of the stream of the pressure tells us the speed of the plane. When the air goes over the angle of attack thing, the pressure on this opening determines the angle. When the pressure on the angle of attack is reaching the pito static, it will bleep telling you are reaching critical angle of attack. At that point you need to reduce the angle of attack or increase engine power. The wind physically pushes a lever that tells you are stalling.
Devin ___: Our religion class made T shirts for Mr. Murphy and his wife.
Check out this video of us doing work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_hVE83wz55RqqLxiUNJild9nzeQ2xth5/view?usp=sharing --> sorry for the poor quality, I set my graphics on low for internet transfer. The file size was over 100 MB for that short video!
Also Mr. Timothy Steedman stopped in to look at our work. He is teaching something similar in his ITE class about gliders and air foils.

  Mar 08, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3.5 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss):
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell):
L___--- > Sub team seat back (Richard Glidden): We are almost finished with the seat backs, we should be done by next week.
Wings construct (Holden Glass): Put some hardware on wings?
Wing Skins (Maggie Colwell): Deburred skins and started prepping them to put on the wing frame.
Mentors: We had a nice day so no need for wrap up. We ordered some of the parts. --> well since we had no wrap up I have no info besides what I worked on.

We started at 4:30 pm instead of 6, because the mentors had a board meeting to discuss financials and the future of the program. Only Harsh Patel (me) and Richard Glidden showed up. Subways, double stuffed chocholate cream oreos (very good), oatmeal raisin cookies, and assorted chips were offered. Yes these details are important enough to be on a builders log.

  Mar 07, 2021     Continued work on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Harsh Patel was not present at this meeting, and no one else even knows how to turn on this computer (password). Thank you Bob Kuenzi for taking the photos below.

  Mar 01, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): After we deburred and prepped all the skins for the fuel tank, we started clecoing them in today after attaching the hardware. We match drilled as well. Next step for us is to finish the hardware and then start riveting.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): We match drilled into some steel bar. Just drilling 2 holes took most of today. We used complex strategies. This steel is the counter weight for the flaperon so that the plane stays balanced when flying.
Fuselage seat (Richard Glidden): We worked on the seat backs. We deburred and then match drilled some stuff for the hinges. The seats fold forward to access the fuel tank.
Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): We had a tough time getting some of the tight in board ribs riveted. We really had to struggle and get in there. As the patented term coined by Maggie states: "struggle bus." They struggle bused until they got the rivets in. We had a hard time to get the rivets 90.
Mentors: A little rubber blob floats in the fuel tank that has a sensor that tells us how much fuel we have left.

  Feb 28, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): Preparing all the parts and just need to get some hardware on and we need to do the final process iwth the sealant.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): We finally got all the parts for the flaperon section deburred and we started looking at it. Richard worked on the seat backs and he should be ready to assemble by next week.
Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): We finished drilling out incorrect rivets and re riveted them. We did lots of riveting, clecoing and arranging and just did it all. It was fairly repetitive. We should be ready for the skins by next week. We riveted all the main ribs, and we clecoed all the nose ribs.
Mentors: We ordered the finishing kits and the avionics and the engine. Those should be getting here in a few months. I am still contacting vans for the back ordered parts.

  Feb 22, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): We were attaching "this piece" (did not specify besides saying "this piece") to the bulkhead. We were riveting it.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): We were prepping parts for the next section after studying the section. We worked on the seat back. It appears that the seat folds forward to access the fuel tank behind it. It was hard to use the band saw on the thick parts to separate them. We also worked on prepping the spar + more parts for the flaperon.
Wings (Holden Glass + Maggie Colwell): We attached the ribs to the spar on the right and left wings. Some problems we had was that on the right wing (maggie's wing) we put the rivets on the wrong side for 5 of them. Holden Glass identified the problem as we switched to the left wing (holden's wing).
Mentors: We had a couple of people cut themselves with this metal. Garett Mcfarren "nearly lost my finger guys" (to quote). We will ask Steve Krog to start bringing in the flight simulator and for discounted prices for us.
Holden Glass: Would you guys be willing to put in more days to help finish the plane by July. We can do this during breaks like summer or spring break.

  Feb 21, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): We finished riveting the floors onto the bullhead. We started adding some of the ribs onto the bulkhead as well. We had to rivet some pieces at a weird angle so we had to use special tools and techniques to reach them.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): We just dimpled nutplates and prepped part F 01206A -1. We installed some hardware that will help protect the part from abrasion.
Wing Spars (Holden Glass): We finished riveting the flaperon hinge bracket to the spar. We continued working on the rear spar doubler plate. We did some countersinking, but had some difficulty reading the plans and had to use our judgement. We will now rivet them onto the part.
Main Wing Ribs (Maggie Colwell): Finished deburring all the main ribs, and clecoed some of them onto the spar. We were kind of going ahead and did the same steps twice on 2 different ribs.
Front Ribs (Harsh Patel): Finished doing the last W - 1208 - R piece. We had lots of issues with getting the machinery to work. We used a drill, but it drilled in a triangle shape (user error from me). We then had to fix that. When dimpling the nutplates, the nutplates were being malformed. We then had to straighten that using tools. At the end, I found out that the main ribs team had done the same step I had on another part. It is no big issue, but in the future better communication should be due (all parts were labelled initially for these steps, however the labels were not read or heeded to by the everyone [other team]).
Mentors: We are waiting for some back ordered parts. We can't move forward with some steps in the fuselage, so we will work on alternate parts for now. Covid, weather, and some other factors may be causing this back ordering. For the wings if you flip the L and R pieces that messes up how the wiring and internal components go inside the wings.

  Feb 15, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

We met at 5 because there was no school.
Left wing (Holden Glass): Deburred the rear spar. We reorganized and got an "office." We organized the ribs. We actually had more ribs than the 14 we needed, this caused some confusion.
Right wing (Maggie Colwell): Finished countersinking the stub spar with Izzy. We riveted the doubler onto the stub spar. We started on the flaperon parts. One of the holes got over counter sinked, so we weren't able to rivet properly.
Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): Attached the floor board ribs to the fuel tank floors. We attached it to the bulkhead.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): We worked while waiting on the back ordered parts.
Ribs (Harsh Patel): We were working on the ribs, and we put the rivets on the wrong side. We looked ahead and see if it would affect anything, it will not be issue.
Note: Multiple teams worked together and swapped members. Usually when a team has an issue, Holden is sought. Wise Glass usually helps (as with the too many ribs).

  Feb 14, 2021     Worked on multiple sections - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Left Wing (Holden Glass): Went forward and looked ahead at the plans (fuselage and wings). Started looking at potential issues we could have in future steps.
Right Wing (Maggie Colwell): Did machine countersinking on a part.
Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): We got a piece ready to attach to the bulkhead. We worked on the fuselage floor.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): We drilled and riveted on parts on the bulkhead. We had a mix up with the nut plates and we had to bend the part around to get the nutplate in.
Wing Ribs (Harsh Patel): We snipped and deburred 28 nose rib pieces. The band saws were not equipped with proper saw blades, so we had to use shears. It was a lot harder and less perfect, but it was what we had.
Larry Sullivan: We are getting the parts in the fuselage ready. Once we are ready to connect to them we will really start building a large section of the plane.

  Feb 07, 2021     Worked on multiple parts - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Fuselage 1 (Josh Weiss): We finished up the forward lower part of the fuselage. We got to the part that we needed to the tank sealant. Then we moved onto a different section and started deburring.
Fuselage 2 (Rebecca Colwell): Toda we dry fitted al the extra parts on the bulkhead. Then we worked on countersinking, we were having issues with the machine countersinker. We decided to hand countersink with the deburring tool.
Wings Spar (Holden Glass [left], Margaret Colwell [right] ): We finished riveting the attach brackets (the small brackets to which the ribs attach). Then we started work on the stub spar that goes on the spar. We will be ready to start attaching the ribs to the attach brackets after 1.5 weeks.
Wing Ribs (rest of wings right): Continued work on mass deburring. Started fluting some of the ribs. Fluting is bending metal to make a side shorter and make it such that the whole piece flat. Removes any bows on the ribs so that when we put it in the plane, we are not bending or flexing the piece to make it fit.
Mentors: They shipped the finishing kit. They are still a month behind but the stuff is on the way.