Getting the wingtips on will not only give us an idea of the full span, but will also allow us to play with all lighting options! Unfortunately, fitting wing tips is more laborious that fitting wings. With about 40 nutplates each, and fiberglass that requires alignment and adjustment, (though I will note, the glass here […]
Part of attaching the wings is attaching the control surfaces, including the flaps and ailerons. Cutting holes in a perfectly good fuselage feels just wrong, but the holes for the control rods came out looking nice and closely fitting the linkage. In addition, my flap skins align nicely with the fuselage bottom and cover the […]
A bit of a jump here: Wings are attached, fuel lines, fuel vents, systems wiring, etc. all hooked up. I’m now working on the wing fairings, which require a bit of fitting and bending, and a whole bunch of nut plates. All of this will be removed for installation of final attachment hardware and then […]
Well, it’s time to start to think about putting some wings on the plane, now that we have the space. There’s a lot of work to do to prepare the wings for installation, and then to finally install them. There will be a bit of back-and-forth on this one. Exciting to see this all lined […]
After 2 years of construction, (2.75 total on the project) the wings are moved to their forever home. My hanger has sat empty for the past two months since I took the keys. Now, it’ll be home to the wings and a few other small components until this becomes the final assembly site. Moving the […]
I’ve yet to install the aileron stops. I first started this on plan, until about half-way through when I didn’t understand much of what the plans were trying to convey. Every attempt to check how people did it on other build logs yielded results of them abandoning plan and going with a delrin bushing on […]
I’ve finally installed the flap retainer pins–a task long on my list. Like most things, I went about it a bit backwards, but in the end it works and looks pretty slick. Next piece on the flaps will be the linkage leading to the control system; all which will be done with the wings on […]