May 19, 2024     Forward tail spar attach - (2.0 hours)       Category: Empennage

Spent yesterday and today trying to figure out how the front spar attaches. There was no mention of the steps, either in the assembly drawings or the instructions. I think I may have figured it out…..

  May 17, 2024     First assembly - (1.3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers

Riveted my first airplane assemblies ever! The first tail spar took about 45 minutes to figure out how to do the squeezing. The remaining 3 took 30 minutes total.

  Apr 02, 2024     Learning to rivet - (2.0 hours) Category: Edu/Research

Set some rivets with a rivet squeezer

  Jul 28, 2023     Primer - (1.0 hour) Category: Tail Feathers

Prepped and primed 7 tail parts.

  Jul 15, 2023     Cleaning adhesive - (2.0 hours) Category: Gen Construc

Used Goo Gone to remove leftover adhesive on several parts.

  May 18, 2023     Bulkhead plate - (1.7 hours)       Category: Empennage

Drilled #30 holes in rear bulkhead plate. Clamped rear bulkhead plate to Former F5 and drilled the #30 holes as well as the 3/16” holes.

  May 17, 2023     Brackets 2 - (.7 hour)       Category: Fuselage

Finished drilling first batch of fuselage brackets.

  May 16, 2023     Brackets 1 - (11.0 hours) Category: Fuselage

Prepped and drilled 20 fuselage brackets. Still need bending.

  May 15, 2023     Former F5 - (1.3 hours)       Category: Empennage

Drilled 3/16” holes through Cap Plate, rear stabilizer spar attach brackets and rear bulkhead plate for (6) AN-3A bolts. Drilled 3/16” mounting holes in tail wheel swivel casting and rear bulkhead plate.

  May 14, 2023     Stabilizer - (.7 hour) Category: Tail Feathers

Bent forward stabilizer attach brackets 15 degrees.