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Builder Name:	Phillip B. Leu -

Project:	Just - Highlander - VIEW REPORTS
Total Hours:	548
Start/Last Date:	Nov 06, 2020 - No Finish Date
Engine:	Yamaha APEX

Friendly URL:	https://eaabuilderslog.org?s=Phillip64

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Apr 03, 2024 Butt Rib - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Reinforcing tape hisoled in with epoxy and attached to the But Rip with the rivets.

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Mar 26, 2024 Baggage Door - (7 hours)

Category: Fuselage

The door for the baggage compartment is cut out. Slightly crease the sides, fit the corrugation and drill the holes.

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Mar 22, 2024 Butt Rib - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Mark and cut out the space for the fuel gauge.

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Mar 09, 2024 Corner Side Windows - (4 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Side window fitted. Edges deburred, fixing holes drilled. Cut out two templates for the two Lexan windows and drilled the mounting holes for the Lexan windows.

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Feb 24, 2024 Baggage Door - (4 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Base plate cut to size and fitted. Sides trimmed. Glued in with epoxy and firmly installed with 2 x 4 rivets.

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Feb 15, 2024 Baggage Door - (5 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Square aluminum bars cut to size and fitted for the two side borders. The two fastening connections for the door lock were manufactured and fitted.

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Feb 14, 2024 Side Stringer - (2 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Glue the left side stringer with Hysol epoxy.

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Feb 13, 2024 Baggage Door - (2 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Round aluminum tube for the rear base plate cut to size and fitted. Hisoled in with epoxy.

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Jan 26, 2024 Rib Stiffener - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Rib stiffener made for the two butt ribs.

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Jan 22, 2024 Door Frame - (1 hour)

Category: Fuselage

Alu tubes from right door frame adappted and bonded with epoxy adhesiv and rivets.

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Jan 19, 2024 Butt Rib - (2 hours)

Category: Fuselage

The two fixing lugs are (right wing) adjusted in length and prepared for installation.

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Jan 18, 2024 Door Frame - (2 hours)

Category: Fuselage

More Steel brackets from right door frame adappted and fixed with epoxy and rivets.

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Jan 13, 2024 Door Frame - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Steel brackets from right door frame adappted and fixed with epoxy and rivets.

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Jan 04, 2024 Door Frame - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Door frame right: The upper two steel brackets fitted. Installed with epoxy and positioned with two cleco fastener.

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Dec 08, 2023 Door Frame - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Left-hand door upper hinge and both side lower hinge bent, fitted, hysoled with epoxy and riveted. I deliberately cast all the angle brackets with epoxy resin. This makes the whole bracket more stable and less sensitive to vibrations.

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Dec 06, 2023 Door Frame - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Upper hinge for the right-hand door bent, fitted, hysoled with epoxy and riveted.

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Dec 05, 2023 Door Frame - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Lower hinge for the left-hand door cut out, bent and fitted.

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Dec 04, 2023 Door Frame - (5 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Lower hinge for the right-hand door cut out, bent and fitted.

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Sep 07, 2023 Door - (2 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Left door top hinge installed.

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Sep 05, 2023 Windshield Front Angle Brackets - (5 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Two front angle brackets F-2650 attached to the fuselage. Holes in the tabs opend to 1/8” to take AD44ABSLF 1/8 x 1⁄4 large head aluminum rivets.
Front brackets trimmed to fit the windshield post between the head rack and the angle of the door frame.

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Aug 16, 2023 Door - (4 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Right door top hinge installed.

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Jul 17, 2023 Top Stringer - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Top stringer adjusted and provided with the mounting holes. Glue the stringer with Hysol epoxy.

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Jul 05, 2023 Flying Wire - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

I did not make the two lower flight wires one continuous piece. I made a steel Y-piece so I could attach two independent flight wires. I temporarily attached the two Y pieces, they still need to be powder coated.

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Jul 04, 2023 Bottom Stringer - (6 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Bootom stringer adjusted and provided with the mounting holes. Cut spacers to the correct length and fasten with rivets. Glue the stringer with Hysol epoxy.

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Jul 02, 2023 Flying Wire - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Flying wires fitted and screwed tight.

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Jun 24, 2023 Horizontal Stabilizer - (5 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Horizontal stabilizer fitted, fastened and bolts coated with locking varnish.

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Jun 11, 2023 Fuselage on Rotary again - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Disassembled landing gear and reinstalled the fuselage on the rotary. Elevator and rudder aligned, checked with laser and fixed with clamping set.

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May 01, 2023 Fwd Kick Panel Window - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Marked the three holes and cut them out with the scroll saw.

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Apr 28, 2023 Side Stringer - (5 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Both side stringers are fitted and holes drilled for the spigots. Shorten the spigots so that both side stringers fit regularly and give the fuselage a good shape. Fit both tube ends so that it fits into the spigot of the fuselage.

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Mar 12, 2023 Fwd Kick Panel Window - (1.5 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Cut out prepared

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Mar 08, 2023 Fwd Kick Panel Window - (4 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Since I did not make the floor panels from the planned aluminum panels, I was able to use the two panels for the forward kick panel windows. The thickness of 0.020" (0.5 mm) fit.

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Feb 13, 2023 Top Stringer - (3 hours)

Category: Fuselage

Top stringer attached and two holes are drilled for the vertigal spigots. Fit the bent end of the tube so that it fits into the front tube of the vertical stabilizer. Fit the airfoil to the vertical stabilizer.

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