May 04, 2024     Fabrication and Assembly Work on Inner Wings - (4 hours)       Category: Wings

Well, it was a pretty exciting day. Today I officially started working on the wings - the OneX has the ability to fold the wings up for travel and reduced storage space. This obviously adds complexity to the wing assembly. Most of the time was spent locating parts and taking those parts to the scotchbright wheel to get rid of sharp edges. Also started assembling some of the hinge mechanism for the wings. Pretty exciting to be starting another subassembly.

  May 04, 2024     Fuselage Box Floor - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Logged just over 7 hours of total build time (see next entry) today - it was awesome. Started out as a rainy Saturday and that prompted the need to go to the hangar.
The fuselage box floor was attached today. Ran into another head-scratcher - some of the bolts intersect such that there is not room for all of them. Very strange. The floor is 95% riveted to the fuselage box. I did not tighten the bolts for the cross members yet - I will wait until the inner wing work is done or close to done.

  May 04, 2024     Bottom Cross Member Attachment - (2 hours)       Category: Fuselage

This work was a good reminder why I chose not to set all the rivets around the areas where cross members and vertical frame members attach to the rest of the frame. There is not much room for drilling the bolt holes for the ends of the cross members.
By the way, I was NOT able to find where it calls for the bolts to attach the cross members to the frame. I searched the prints and I don't believe the information was there - pissed me off a little bit. The only reason I know is because of a set of videos that I purchased of a OneX build.
I'm completely wiling to be wrong but I was not able to find it on the prints.

  May 04, 2024     Glare Shield Detail - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage

May have mentioned this earlier but decided to attach glareshield with screws for future access. May never need it but it gives me the option without having to drill out many rivets. I will likely have to cut out for the front holes that would otherwise be attached with the corner bolts in the frame.
Also, I added all the hardware in the yellow hardware trays to my NodeRED inventory application - I should never have to look for any parts or hardware again.

  Apr 07, 2024     Glare shield complete - (3.8 hours) Category: Fuselage

  Mar 16, 2024     Glare shield install - (0.55 hour) Category: Fuselage

  Mar 04, 2024     Upper firewall and glare shield - (1.1 hours) Category: Fuselage

  Mar 04, 2024     Firewall attachment. - (0.45 hour) Category: Fuselage

  Feb 21, 2024     Initial fitting of glare shield - (1.5 hours) Category: Fuselage

  Feb 21, 2024     Installation of flap handle detent - (1.05 hours) Category: Fuselage