Empennage
20030905
20030908, 2 hours: One box of the empennage kit arrives. There are supposed to be two...?...
20030909, 2 hours: Second kit box arrives, unpacked it uses up most of the storage I had...
20030910, 1 hours: Someone on the matronics list suggested using wood wedges to pry apart ...
20030911
20030912, 3 hours: I read ahead in the directions a bit looking for something I could work on with...
20030913, 5 hours: After rough-cutting those angles, I couldn't figure out a good way to get them ...
20030914, 4 hours: Mostly finished deburring HS ribs ...
20030915, 8 hours: Put in a full day today, though I was hesitant to start drilling with my sub-op...
20030916
20030925, 3 hours: Back from a week of not thinking about airplanes, enormous wing jigs,...
20030926, 4 hours: drilled the holes in the HS attach brackets, now they are complete...
20030927, 4 hours: Today I reassembled the HS and match-drilled the...
20030928, 2 hours: Experimented with proper ways to remove the protective vinyl...
20030929, 10 hours: Spent a ton of time deburring the HS spars. Wasted a lot of...
20030930, 6 hours: Long and frustrating day trying to get the HS skeleton to fit the...
20031001, 6 hours: I finished the assembly of the HS in the skin with some difficulty, nothing see...
20031002, 3 hours: I got some opinions on my tight-fitting HS; people seemed to think that the...
20031003, 4 hours: Finished the last few drill-holes on the skin, then disassembled...
20031004, 4 hours: I tried to start deburring the holes in the ribs, but found that the manual too...
20031005, 8 hours: Full day today. I dimpled the entire left HS skin, some of...
20031006, 8 hours: Another full day in the airplane factory. I spent at least...
20031007, 6 hours: I started assembly of the right HS in the skin today. It...
20031008, 8 hours: I went ahead and drilled the right HS skin,...
20031009, 6 hours: Countersunk the spars, painstakingly as ever. I am ...
20031010, 3 hours: Finished scratch removal on the ribs. This time I used a ...
20031014, 3 hours: Not much progress recently, between Mike's bachelor party, wedding, and me catc...
20031015
20031016, 2 hours: Realized I forgot to prime a few parts, the attach angles...
20031017, 4 hours: Still feeling pretty under the weather, all I could muster...
20031018, 10 hours: Today was productive and destructive all in one. Emily...
20031019, 3 hours: Disassembled the VS, deburred all holes except on the skin,...
20031020, 1 hours: Deburred VS skin. Still fighting the flu and that's about...
20031021
20031022, 4 hours: Dimpled the VS skin and ribs, then countersunk the spar doubler to fit the spar...
20031023, 4 hours: Removed scratches, cleaned, prepped, and primed VS parts. Thankfully this went ...
20031024, 2 hours: Did some touch-up priming on the VS parts where I coated it...
20031025, 3 hours: Finished riveting the HS front spar except for the missing attach angle...
20031026, 4 hours: Riveted the rear HS spar. This went really well and I am finally feeling comfo...
20031027, 4 hours: Spent most of today recreating the HS attach angle...
20031028, 6 hours: Productive day today. First I started out riveting the new...
20031029, 6 hours: And only 2 rivets successfully set. ...
20031030, 4 hours: Decided that the two rivets from yesterday sucked as well,...
20031031, 3 hours: Called Van's about the gaps in my skeleton. They said I...
20031102
20031103, 2 hours: Tried some more VS spar riveting only to get more gaps. Did ...
20031105, 5 hours: Started on the rudder in earnest today, finishing all the...
20031106, 3 hours: After a lot of procrastinating and waiting for tools I ...
20031107, 4 hours: The wing kit arrived...
20031108, 4 hours: Big day today, we finally riveted some skins, and the VS ...
20031109, 3 hours: Riveted the rest of the bucked rivets on the VS except for...
20031110, 8 hours: Started out today dimpling the rudder skins and stiffeners....
20031111, 4 hours: I spent some time screwing around with some slightly crooked...
20031112, 6 hours: Back-riveted all the rudder stiffeners to both skins....
20031113, 3 hours: I started deburring all the holes that I drilled on the rudder....
20031114, 2 hours: I got Emily back on the rivet gun today and finished up the...
20031116, 5 hours: More team riveting today as we re-tackled the awful HS nose rib which was our fi...
20031117, 5 hours: With the HS nose ribs done on the left side, it's finally time to start putting...
20031118, 2 hours: Didn't do much today except stare at my HS which continues to...
20031119, 6 hours: Today I drove all the internal rivets on the left HS, probably about 150 in all...
20031120, 4 hours: I riveted the end ribs of the left HS to the spar then to the ...
20031121, 4 hours: Emily and I got the right HS nose rib riveted in about 20 minutes, with both of...
20031122, 4 hours: Riveted internal right HS. I almost got away without any bad rivets till the v...
20031123, 3 hours: I did a little more riveting on the HS and re-struck some of the rivets that ne...
20031124, 6 hours: The HS is essentially done. After struggling with the alignment for a few hour...
20031125, 6 hours: The HS is done for now. I fixed a few bad rivets, hit the final rib-to-spar ri...
20031126, 7 hours: Two parts completed in one day...sounds impressive but it's not really. I sque...
20031128, 8 hours: I finished dimpling the elevator skin and other parts, riveted a small part of ...
20031129, 6 hours: I finished up drilling the right elevator, including the...
20031130, 6 hours: Dimpling and removing scratches on the rudder and elevator parts......
20031201, 8 hours: Nothing but skeleton riveting today. As usual my first few rivets of the day w...
20031202, 5 hours: Backriveted the right elevator stiffeners:...
20031203, 2 hours: Stared at the spar problem some more and tried backriveting...
20031204, 4 hours: Time to try conventional riveting on that elevator spar again...with a lot...
20031205, 6 hours: I'm waiting on some pop-rivets for the elevator, so back to the rudder. First ...
20031206, 8 hours: Before I resumed riveting today, I noticed that there was a high spot on the sk...
20031207, 3 hours: The trailing edge of the rudder is glued together before riveting, in order to k...
20031208, 6 hours: The rudder needs to cure for a couple days, so it's on to the left elevator. T...
20031209, 7 hours: Disassembled the left elevator, deburred everything, dimpled everything...The v...
20031210, 4 hours: Riveted the left elevator spar, ribs, control arm, counterbalance ribs...
20031211, 5 hours: More left elevator work...riveted the top stiffeners and spar......
20031218, 4 hours: Back at it after a short vacation. The left elevator is nearing completion...l...
20031219, 3 hours: Drilled the left elevator trailing edge. This part is not pre-drilled, so you ...
20031220, 4 hours: The elevator and rudder trailing edge is riveted in a ...
20031221, 3 hours: Trim tab time. The only ribs in this contraption are made of foam. I guess th...
20031222, 3 hours: The trim tab is coming along but with the holidays I am not getting many hours ...
20031223, 5 hours: I realized that I have my first cockpit controls and instrument already in my p...
20031224, 5 hours: After further consideration I decided to bite the bullet and...
20031227, 4 hours: Today I completed the rudder by closing up the leading edge....
20031228, 3 hours: Riveted the right elevator ribs, and prepared the alignment...
Wings
20031229, 5 hours: Wing stand construction. Basically all you need is two big vertical posts abou...
20031230, 7 hours: The first step in wing construction is making a large number of very deep count...
20031231, 3 hours: I realized I should probably follow the directions and do both spars at once, w...
20040101, 4 hours: Happy new year...
20040102, 3 hours: Riveted the other side of the right spar, and did all...
20040103, 4 hours: Finished riveting tank nutplates on left spar. There are a few dozen smaller n...
20040104, 4 hours: Work on the wing access plates...another set of countersinks on the spars, nutp...
20040105, 6 hours: Besides cleaning up the shop today ...
20040106, 7 hours: It's time for the dreaded wing rib preparation. Each rib much have every edge ...
20040107, 7 hours: Well, I fluted the last four right-wing ribs last night. To attach the outboar...
20040108, 6 hours: I realized it would probably be best to have the rear spar riveted together bef...
20040111, 3 hours: Finished right elevator....
20040112, 4 hours: Tie-downs, rear wing spar priming...
20040113, 4 hours: Rear spar riveting ...
20040114, 4 hours: Final wing spar prep...
20040115, 6 hours: Wing rib conduit cuts, and trim tab......
20040116, 2 hours: Removing scratches from ribs. Using the dremel tool for now but I need to fire...
20040117, 2 hours: Wing rib prep......
20040118, 4 hours: Finished wing rib prep, finally...
20040119, 7 hours: Little bits and pieces......
20040120, 5 hours: Primed right wing ribs....
20040121, 2 hours: Moved stuff around, hooked up elevator trim...
20040125, 3 hours: Riveted wing ribs to spar....
20040126, 6 hours: Riveted rear spar, put skin on wing....
20040127, 4 hours: Started leading edge....
20040128, 5 hours: Wing takes shape...
20040129, 6 hours: Started right fuel tank....
20040130, 2 hours: Misc. tank stuff......
20040131, 3 hours: Assembled ...
20040201, 2 hours: Misc tank stuff......
20040202, 3 hours: More random tank stuff......
20040203, 5 hours: Still hacking away at the tank......
20040204, 8 hours: Ready for the black death......
20040205, 2 hours: Well, not quite ready......
20040206, 2 hours: Err......
20040207, 5 hours: Tank riveting underway...
20040208, 3 hours: Riveting minor tank parts...
20040209, 4 hours: One tank rib down, 6 to go......
20040210, 3 hours: Hacking away at the tanks......
20040211, 4 hours: Interior tank ribs done...
20040212, 4 hours: Tank ribs finally done...
20040213, 2 hours: Puttering around......
20040215, 2 hours: Misc Stuff ...
20040216, 4 hours: Dimpling fun ...
20040218, 3 hours: Wing ready to prime...
20040219, 5 hours: Wing priming...
20040220, 5 hours: leading edge complete...
20040222, 5 hours: Tank and LE work...
20040223, 10 hours: Right tank done...
20040225, 3 hours: Leaky tank...
20040226, 4 hours: Etc......
20040227, 5 hours: Tank really done, this time I mean it, really...
20040228, 2 hours: More tank...
20040229, 3 hours: Attaching LE...
20040301, 6 hours: Started riveting wing skins...
20040302, 5 hours: Almost done with top skins...
20040303, 4 hours: Various stuff...
20040304, 3 hours: Built aileron/flap attach brackets...
20040305, 1 hours: A little more riveting......
20040307, 2 hours: A little more wing-skin riveting......
20040308, 6 hours: Wing cradle built, left wing started...
20040309, 6 hours: LE and wing skeleton...
20040310, 4 hours: Wing skeleton...
20040311, 3 hours: Back to raw materials again ...
20040315, 3 hours: Primed wing ribs...
20040316, 4 hours: Started riveting wing skeleton...
20040317, 6 hours: Wing skeleton ...
20040318, 6 hours: Lots of progress on both wings...
20040319, 4 hours: Flap brackets...
20040320, 4 hours: More flap attach...
20040321, 2 hours: Drilled left wing skins...
20040322, 6 hours: Leading-edge work...
20040323, 6 hours: Left tank underway...
20040326, 4 hours: Platenut city...
20040327, 3 hours: Almost ready for the gas-mask......
20040328, 4 hours: Tank ready to rivet...
20040329, 6 hours: Tank riveting...
20040330, 8 hours: All tank ribs done...
20040331, 4 hours: Misc. tank details...
20040401, 6 hours: TANKS DONE, FINALLY...
20040402, 3 hours: Tank finished, started ailerons...
20040403, 5 hours: Aileron stiffeners, flap attach...
20040404, 5 hours: Mostly deburring...
20040405, 6 hours: Priming...
20040406, 6 hours: Leading edge done...
20040407, 3 hours: Shop rearrangement and aileron...
20040408, 5 hours: aileron ...
20040409, 4 hours: Wing skins, fuselage arrived...
20040410, 3 hours: Priming...
20040411, 3 hours: Aileron final assembly...
20040412, 6 hours: Riveted aileron...
Fuselage
20040413, 6 hours: Wing LE, fuselage inventory, started firewall...
20040414, 8 hours: Firewall under way...
20040415, 6 hours: Aileron riveting, etc....
20040416, 5 hours: More aileron, firewall, center section...
20040417, 2 hours: Open house ...
20040418, 4 hours: Center section drilling...
20040419, 3 hours: Firewall riveting...
20040420, 6 hours: Finished firewall riveting...
20040421, 5 hours: Firewall done, center section riveting...
20040422, 5 hours: Finished center section...
20040423, 4 hours: Fabricated aft cockpit components...
20040424, 4 hours: 705 bulkhead work...
20040426, 6 hours: Massive parts prep, aileron finished...
20040427, 2 hours: 705 bulkhead...
20040428, 6 hours: Priming and started riveting 705...
20040429, 8 hours: Wing LE done, 705 bulkhead done...
20040430, 5 hours: Bulkhead work...
20040501, 8 hours: More bulkheads...
20040502, 8 hours: More bulkheads, started longerons...
20040503, 6 hours: More longeron bending, wing riveting...
20040504, 5 hours: Finished longerons, first fuselage assembly...
20040505, 4 hours: Left wing done for now...
20040506, 2 hours: Not much...
20040507, 4 hours: 706 bulkhead, aileron...
20040508, 3 hours: aileron debur and another problem...
20040509, 1 hours: Ribs...
20040510, 5 hours: Center fuselage assembly...
20040511, 3 hours: Center section prep...
20040512, 6 hours: Drilled center fuselage...
20040513, 4 hours: Dimpling......
20040514, 4 hours: Primed center fuselage...
20040516, 4 hours: Misc fuse work...
20040521, 4 hours: Drilled aft fuselage...
20040524, 5 hours: Aft fuselage almost ready to rivet......
20040525, 3 hours: started fuselage riveting...
20040526, 5 hours: Aft and mid fuselage riveting...
20040527, 2 hours: Baggage rib riveting...
20040528, 4 hours: Riveting...
20040530, 6 hours: More fuselage riveting, aileron work...
20040531, 4 hours: Left aileron almost done...
20040601, 4 hours: More fuse riveting...
20040606, 5 hours: Ready to join aft ...
20040607, 6 hours: Joined fuselage...
20040608, 4 hours: Armrests, started flaps...
20040609, 6 hours: Getting ready to drill longerons...
20040610, 6 hours: Drilled longerons...
20040611, 8 hours: Drilled firewall...
20040612, 3 hours: Drilled some more longerons...
20040613, 6 hours: More miscellaneous fwd-fuselage...
20040614, 6 hours: More forward fuselage framing...
20040615, 6 hours: Yet more forward fuselage...
20040616, 3 hours: Drilling complete on fuselage...
20040617, 3 hours: second flap ready to drill...
20040619, 1 hours: Drilled left flap...
20040620, 3 hours: Built compressor silencer, flap debur...
20040621, 7 hours: Mounted rudder pedals, deburring...
20040622, 8 hours: Getting ready to disassemble fuselage...
20040623, 4 hours: Brake pedals drilled, started fuse disassembly...
20040624, 5 hours: Fuselage getting smaller......
20040625, 6 hours: Debur/dimple...
20040626, 4 hours: dimple dimple...
20040627, 6 hours: Fuselage/flaps priming...
20040628, 5 hours: Fuselage growing again...
20040629, 6 hours: Started forward fuselage riveting...
20040630, 5 hours: More fuselage riveting, started riveting flap...
20040701, 3 hours: Right flap assembly...
20040702, 3 hours: Riveting flap...
20040704, 3 hours: Random flap/fuse riveting...
20040705, 3 hours: Elevators?...
20040706, 3 hours: More flap work, played with LED position lights...
20040707, 4 hours: misc fuselage, finished right flap...
20040708, 4 hours: Left flap riveting...
20040710, 3 hours: Fwd fuselage bottom...
20040711, 4 hours: Left flap almost done...
20040712, 3 hours: Interior fuselage stuff...
20040713, 4 hours: Rolled the fuselage...
20040715, 6 hours: Last massive riveting session...
20040716, 5 hours: aft deck and other gussets...
20040717, 5 hours: More gussets ...
20040718, 3 hours: Sequel of aft fuselage...
20040719, 8 hours: Still gusseting...
20040720, 6 hours: Aft upper fuselage...
20040721, 5 hours: Step kit...
20040722, 4 hours: Tailcone cover...
20040723, 4 hours: More baggage area...
20040724, 4 hours: Seat construction...
20040725, 3 hours: Side skin riveting...
20040726, 5 hours: Baggage area mostly finished...
20040727, 6 hours: Seat skins...
20040728, 4 hours: Forward seat skins and seatbacks...
20040729, 4 hours: Seats done...
20040730, 4 hours: Forward covers, started flap actuator, plus extra bonus...
20040731, 4 hours: Flap actuator...
20040801, 3 hours: Flap actuator complete...
20040802, 6 hours: Seat brace, landing gear...
20040803, 1 hours: Landing gear, LEDs...
20040805, 3 hours: Mounting elevators...
20040808, 4 hours: Mounting elevators...
20040809, 3 hours: Random...
20040810, 3 hours: Bolting center section...
20040812, 5 hours: Fuselage bolting and plumbing...
20040813, 6 hours: wing skins, cabin frame...
20040815, 3 hours: Cabin frame parts...
20040816, 4 hours: Wing skins and cabin frame...
20040817, 4 hours: Cabin frame...or just call it the roll bar...
20040818, 3 hours: forward fuselage surgery...
20040819, 6 hours: More roll bar, finish kit arrived...
20040820, 6 hours: More roll bar...
20040821, 4 hours: Priming time again...
20040822, 6 hours: Roll bar riveted...
20040823, 7 hours: Roll bar installation...
20040824, 5 hours: Revenge of the Gear Weldments...
20040825, 6 hours: Landing gear, roll bar, as usual...
20040826, 5 hours: Roll bar channel, subpanel...
20040827, 2 hours: Started plumbing...
20040828, 6 hours: Plumbing...
20040830, 5 hours: Fuel pump, gascolator, brake reservoir...
20040831, 3 hours: Upper/fwd fuselage...
20040901, 5 hours: Priming, brake lines...
20040902, 6 hours: Installed upper forward fuselage...
20040903, 3 hours: Fuel lines ...
20040907, 3 hours: Mail call...
20040908, 8 hours: Gear down...
20040909, 3 hours: Drilling axles is no fun...
20040910, 4 hours: 4 holes, 3 drill bits...
20040911, 3 hours: aileron pushrods...
20040912, 5 hours: Shop cleanup, parts prep...
20040913, 4 hours: Someday I will be able to say ...
20040914, 4 hours: Roll bar...
20040915, 2 hours: Aileron mounting prep...
20040918, 3 hours: Right pushrods done...
20040922, 3 hours: Right pushrods done, again...
20041020, 5 hours: Snowboard rack, wing ready to rivet...
20041021, 3 hours: Planning for bottom skins...
20041022, 3 hours: ELT Install...
20041031, 5 hours: Static ports, forward fuselage, rudder cable fairings...
20041101, 3 hours: Started wing bottom skins...
20041107, 2 hours: Wing riveting...
20041117, 4 hours: More wing, air vents...
20041122, 8 hours: Canopy hinge and jettison mechanism...
20041123, 1 hours: Parts prep...
20041126, 4 hours: Canopy lock...
20041127, 4 hours: Cockpit misc...
20041128, 4 hours: Right wing bottom skin...almost......
20041204, 8 hours: Cockpit painting...
20041208, 1 hours: reinstalled canopy latch...
20041210, 3 hours: Latch done and firewall...
20041212, 5 hours: Right wing done...
20041213, 2 hours: Wrapping up wing...
20041218, 5 hours: Firewall stuff...
20041219, 4 hours: Fitting canopy frame...
20041220, 7 hours: Still fitting canopy frame...
20041221, 4 hours: Fitting canopy frame...
20041222, 4 hours: Canopy frame mounted...
20041223, 4 hours: Canopy ribs...
20041224, 5 hours: Canopy frame......
20041226, 3 hours: Canopy ribs still...
20041228, 6 hours: Finished right wing, Drilled canopy frame...
20041229, 5 hours: Riveted canopy frame...
20041230, 4 hours: First canopy cuts...
20041231, 5 hours: Canopy trimming...
20050101, 4 hours: front canopy trimming...
20050102, 4 hours: Made the big cut...
20050109, 5 hours: Almost done trimming the canopy, canopy ears...
20050112, 2 hours: Gave up on canopy ears, started splicing ribs...
20050115, 5 hours: Final canopy frame riveting...
20050118, 1 hours: Dynon arrived...
20050123, 3 hours: Drilled canopy...
20050129, 3 hours: Trimmed back window...
20050130, 4 hours: Drilled rear window...
20050206, 3 hours: Final trim of rear window...
20050210, 2 hours: Propeller arrived, canopy edge...
20050212, 5 hours: Still working on the canopy gap...
20050213
20050222, 4 hours: Countersunk canopy, started frame reinforcement...
20050302, 2 hours: Misc canopy reinforcement...
20050305, 2 hours: Canopy braces drilled in...
20050306, 4 hours: Canopy side skirts...
20050314, 2 hours: Canopy frame, 706 support...
20050315, 1 hours: Nothing really...
20050319, 4 hours: Canopy strut fabrication...
20050320, 4 hours: Canopy ready to prime...
20050402, 4 hours: Primed canopy...
20050403, 4 hours: Started riveting canopy skin, panel work...
20050410, 4 hours: Started riveting canopy skin...
20050413, 2 hours: Worked on lift attach blocks, finished riveting canopy skin...
20050415, 1 hours: Dynon EMS arrived...
20050416, 5 hours: Canopy frame ready for paint, panel layout...
20050417, 5 hours: Panel punched, frame painted...
20050418, 2 hours: First placement of Dynons in panel...
20050422, 1 hours: Tested EL instrument lights...
20050423, 2 hours: Canopy handles...
20050424, 6 hours: Canopy on frame, panel work...
20050427, 2 hours: Strut mounts...
20050430, 2 hours: Strut mounts complete...
20050501, 4 hours: Misc...
20050502, 2 hours: More misc forward fuselage...
20050507, 3 hours: Final reroute of brake lines...
20050508, 2 hours: Rerouted vent lines...
20050513, 3 hours: Ran static lines...
20050514, 4 hours: Misc upper fuselage...
20050515, 6 hours: Left wing out, electrical planning...
20050516, 0 hours: Infinity grip arrived...
20050519, 1 hours: Minor wing work...
20050521, 3 hours: Unpacked tons of electronics, started on flap attach...
20050522, 4 hours: Riveting flap brackets...
20050528, 3 hours: Left wing prep...
20050604, 6 hours: CreativAir Strobe PS Mount...
20050605, 4 hours: Mounted left aileron, bellcrank done...
20050606, 2 hours: Pitot cutout...
20050607, 3 hours: Gap fairings, Carbon Monoxide sensor...
20050611, 3 hours: Getting ready to close up the wing...
20050617, 3 hours: Cockpit paint touchup, reassembly...
20050618, 2 hours: More panel cutting...
20050619, 3 hours: Panel filing, glovebox...
20050706, 4 hours: Wing bottom skin, glove box...
20050710, 6 hours: Left wing skins done...
20050713, 5 hours: Wings done, map box ...
20050715, 3 hours: Wing conduit, rudder pedal brace...
Electrical
20050716, 8 hours: Riveted subpanel, started wiring, power on...
20050717, 6 hours: Mounted fuse blocks, installed ANL and shunt...
20050718, 2 hours: Transducer manifold, voltage regulator...
20050721, 3 hours: Mounting various electronics...
20050723, 6 hours: Battery cables...
20050724, 4 hours: Bus shuffle and more wiring...
20050727, 2 hours: Bellcrank windows...
20050730, 5 hours: Misc. procrastination items...
20050731, 4 hours: Vents...
20050806, 4 hours: Controls...
20050807, 3 hours: Aft fuselage wrap-up...
20050811, 3 hours: Playing with Lighting...
20050813, 5 hours: RV-8 project visit, more lighting and stick...
20050814, 6 hours: Last priming session, more lighting, ordered circuit boards...
20050819, 3 hours: Built circuit boards...
20050820, 2 hours: Channel cover...
20050822, 1 hours: Heatsinks for LED regulators...
20050827, 3 hours: Baggage light complete...
20050828, 4 hours: Cabin flood lights complete...
20050829, 2 hours: Radios ordered...
20050905, 0 hours: Evergreen Aviation Museum for RV Builders...
20050906, 2 hours: Pushrod follies...
20050907, 3 hours: Let there be light...
20050908, 2 hours: Stick wiring, under-seat layout...
20050909, 8 hours: Annunciator panel, carbon monoxide detector...
20050910, 4 hours: More wiring, strobes ...
20050911, 3 hours: wiring organization, mapbox door...
20050914, 3 hours: Stick wiring, relay deck...
20050915, 3 hours: Relay deck...
20050916, 3 hours: More relay deck...
20050917, 8 hours: Relay deck wiring...
20050918, 6 hours: Relay deck installed, EMS wiring...
20050919, 2 hours: Fuel line...
20050920, 2 hours: Still wiring, and aileron trim...
20050921, 2 hours: Aileron trim assembled...
20050923, 2 hours: DB9 connectors...
20050924, 2 hours: Built Dynon EFIS harness, installed...
20050928, 2 hours: Re-wired EFIS, updated software...
20050929, 1 hours: Left subpanel...
20051001, 5 hours: EFIS failover, EMS warning light, installed aileron trim...
20051002, 3 hours: Dynon remote compass...
20051004, 2 hours: Avionics arrived...
20051005, 2 hours: Panel cutting...
20051007, 2 hours: Filing away......
20051008, 8 hours: Radios in the panel and powered up...
20051009, 3 hours: Headset wiring...
20051010, 2 hours: Massive wire sorting...
20051011, 2 hours: The airplane speaks...
20051015, 3 hours: Dimmer and inverter...
20051022, 1 hours: Fiddling with radio pinouts...
20051023, 2 hours: Subpanel and rack surgery...
20051108, 6 hours: Panel riveted ...
20051114, 6 hours: Panel permanently installed...
20051120, 6 hours: Working on wrapping up the panel...
20051125, 4 hours: Audio work...
20051126, 5 hours: Retrofitting for the canopy...
20051203, 3 hours: Antennas...
20051204, 4 hours: ELT wiring, map lights...
20051218, 3 hours: Vent hose, compass...
20051222, 1 hours: Strobe wiring...
20051226, 7 hours: Panel complete...
20060113, 4 hours: OAT ...
Firewall Forward
20060114, 3 hours: Started engine mount...
20060115, 4 hours: Engine mount attached...
20060116, 1 hours: Nose wheel...
20060117, 1 hours: Nose gear...
20060122, 6 hours: Nose wheel on, misc cleanup...
20060128, 2 hours: Brake lines complete...
20060129, 3 hours: Started wingtips...
20060212, 3 hours: Nose gear, debugging EDC...
20060214, 1 hours: Engine arrived...
20060216, 0 hours: Some more engine photos...
20060226, 3 hours: Jack kit...
20060412, 2 hours: Mounted LSI brain-box...
20060415, 3 hours: Elevator surgery...
20060419, 2 hours: Removed/shipped nose gear for mods, fiberglass experiment...
20060420, 1 hours: fiberglass revealed...
20060421, 2 hours: Heat selector, misc cleanup...
20060422, 1 hours: Last big Van's shipment?...
20060424, 3 hours: Started on aileron rebuild...
20060427, 3 hours: Aileron skins: prime and rivet...
20060506, 3 hours: Back on nose gear, ailerons mostly drilled...
20060520, 4 hours: Aileron assembly and repair...
20060522, 10 hours: Aileron 1 prosealed...
, 10 hours: One aileron prosealed...
20060524, 2 hours: Elevator pushrods complete...
20060526, 2 hours: Left aileron done...
20060527, 2 hours: Right aileron prosealed...
20060602, 2 hours: Misc, preparing to hang engine...
20060603, 4 hours: Aft fuse cleanup...
20060604, 5 hours: Aft fuse skins riveting...
20060607, 2 hours: Preparing for engine hanging...
20060608, 3 hours: GPS...
20060609, 3 hours: 9A flight, gps antenna mount...
20060610, 2 hours: Final firewall preparation...
20060611, 5 hours: Engine is hung...
20060612, 5 hours: Torqued engine, started plumbing...
20060613, 5 hours: More engine plumbing...
20060614, 5 hours: FWF...
20060615, 6 hours: Exhaust...
20060616, 8 hours: EGT, wiring and stuff...
20060617, 4 hours: Engine wiring...
20060618, 5 hours: More engine wiring...
20060619, 2 hours: Sensor rerouting/wiring...
20060620, 2 hours: Heavy wire routing...
20060621, 4 hours: Wiring cleanup...
20060623, 3 hours: Lower FWF...
20060624, 5 hours: Started cowl...
20060625, 5 hours: Top cowl trimming...
20060626, 6 hours: Cowl, applied N-numbers...
20060627, 6 hours: Cowling harassment...
20060628, 8 hours: Cowl Finally Fits...
20060629, 6 hours: Wired Lightspeed, wiring cleanup...
20060630, 3 hours: Started Baffles...
20060701, 3 hours: More Baffles...
20060702, 3 hours: Static lines...
20060703, 3 hours: Baffle floors...
20060704, 2 hours: Left baffle floor...
20060705, 7 hours: Baffles continue...
20060706, 7 hours: What else, baffles?...
20060707, 8 hours: Trimming baffles...
20060708, 4 hours: Did something or another with the baffles...
20060709, 4 hours: Final baffle tweaks...
20060711, 2 hours: Dynon update, smoothing baffles...
20060712, 4 hours: Baffles ready for paint...
20060713, 2 hours: Painted baffles...
20060714, 6 hours: Riveted baffles, last of the big rivets?...
20060715, 5 hours: Baffles first install...
20060716, 3 hours: 3...
20060717, 8 hours: Wiring done ...
Wrap-up
20060718, 3 hours: Battery/ground cables...
20060719, 6 hours: Cowl drilled...
20060720, 4 hours: Prep cowl hinges, started epoxying...
20060721, 6 hours: Aft fuse riveting, more cowl epoxying, experimented with decal system...
20060722, 4 hours: Finished cowl hinges, more decal experiments...
20060723, 2 hours: Cowl brace...
20060724, 4 hours: exhaust ...
20060725, 5 hours: FWF wiring, airseal fabric...
20060726, 5 hours: Drilled airseals, FWF hacking...
20060727, 8 hours: Airseal fabric, heat muff, secured FWF wiring, decals...
20060728, 6 hours: Aft fuse riveting, preparing to move...
20060729, 4 hours: Aft fuselage done...
20060730, 8 hours: Tail finished, move prep, decals...
20060731, 4 hours: Visited hangar, recovered decal mess, canopy on...
20060801, 6 hours: Canopy sanding and gap-fill...
20060802, 6 hours: Last day of move prep, latch fingers...
20060803, 4 hours: Fuselage at airport...
20060804, 4 hours: Emp tips...
20060805, 4 hours: Primed top cowl, canopy struts on, Dynon wiring...
20060807, 4 hours: Emp tips...
20060808, 7 hours: Baffles, cowl filling, N-number...
20060812, 2 hours: Builder motivation day, cowl filling...
20060813, 2 hours: Emp tips...
20060814, 2 hours: HS tips...
20060815, 4 hours: Airbox, sanding cowl...
20060817, 2 hours: Blocked off HS tips...
20060818, 1 hours: HS tips...
20060819, 2 hours: HS tips, baffle airseal...
20060820, 5 hours: Baffle tie rods, engine controls, wiring bundles, cowl filling...
20060822, 3 hours: Still hacking on the emp tips...
20060823, 6 hours: Wiring cleanup, cowl priming...
20060825, 3 hours: Wing ...
20060828, 2 hours: Oil cooler...
20060829, 5 hours: Airbox, oil cooler, cowl...
20060830, 1 hours: Staring at emp tips...
20060906
20060909, 3 hours: More emp tips, preparing to move wings...
20060910, 2 hours: Moved wings...
20060914, 2 hours: HS/VS tips fit, finally...
20060915, 2 hours: Building position light...
20060916, 3 hours: Position light built and fired up...
20060917, 3 hours: wingtip lens...
20060918, 6 hours: Baffles secured for good...
20060922, 3 hours: One wingtip done, started the other...
20060923, 4 hours: Oil cooler on, wingtip work...
20060924, 3 hours: Both wingtips done...
20060925, 4 hours: HS done, at airport, oil cooler...
20060927, 3 hours: airbox, oil drain...
20060928, 2 hours: Elevator counerweights...
20060930, 2 hours: Final fabrication?...
20061002, 4 hours: HS fitting, etc...
20061003, 0 hours: Seats arrived...
20061004, 3 hours: Misc...
20061006, 4 hours: HS Drilled...
20061008, 2 hours: VS done...
20061010, 4 hours: VS Attach...
20061011, 4 hours: VS Drilling...
20061014, 3 hours: Both stabilizers installed...
20061015, 2 hours: Initial elevator mounting...
20061016, 5 hours: Empennage cleanup, rudder on...
20061018, 6 hours: Rudder stop, tail wiring, tail attach...
20061019, 3 hours: HS/VS on for good, rudder bottom...
20061021, 3 hours: Rudder on for good...
20061023, 3 hours: Elevators on for good...
20061024, 4 hours: Elevator pushrods, emp wiring...
20061025, 6 hours: Elevator trim servo, FWF wrap-up...
20061028, 4 hours: Finished coil wiring, airbox going again...
20061030, 5 hours: Airbox...
20061101, 5 hours: Airbox still...
20061103, 4 hours: Engine controls...
20061104, 5 hours: Airbox, engine control fiasco...
20061105, 4 hours: Misc...
20061106, 6 hours: Cowl inlet, landing gear...
20061107, 4 hours: Cowl inlet and misc...
20061108, 4 hours: Airbox done, elevators balanced...
20061110, 3 hours: 2 cars in the garage, wheels and controls...
20061111, 10 hours: Control cables, emp fairing...
20061112, 4 hours: Emp fairing platenuts, wings ready to attach...
20061115, 4 hours: Mostly controls...
20061116, 4 hours: Getting ready for canopy fiberglass...
20061117, 6 hours: Canopy fairing fiberglass...
20061118, 5 hours: Wings on...
20061120, 6 hours: Setting up the wing...
20061121, 3 hours: More wing setup...
20061122, 5 hours: Drilled rear spars...
20061126, 4 hours: Wing root fairings...
20061129, 4 hours: Tank brackets, wings off again...
20061130, 3 hours: Wing wiring...
20061203, 3 hours: Wing fairing nutplates...
20061205, 5 hours: Wings ready for plug-in, and plugged-in...
20061206, 4 hours: Wingtips powered up...
20061208, 4 hours: Started wingtip attach, aileron swapping...
20061209, 5 hours: Wingtip work...
20061210, 5 hours: More tip work...
20061218, 4 hours: Trimmed sticks, pushrod rigging...
20061219, 5 hours: Outer aileron pushrods, wingtip epoxy...
20061220, 11 hours: Aileron pushrods again, pitot/AOA tubing...
20061223, 6 hours: Pushrod debugging, airbox attach, wingtips...
20061227, 4 hours: Elevator controls, wingtips...
20061228, 5 hours: Wingtips just about done...
20061229, 5 hours: Wingtips done, control sticks figured out...
20061230, 5 hours: All controls done and safetied...
20070101, 4 hours: Wingtips on, flap work...
20070102, 5 hours: Flaps hooked up, started wing bolts...
20070103, 4 hours: First wing bolt torqued...
20070105, 5 hours: Wing bolts done...
20070106, 5 hours: Wing bolts done ...
20070108, 5 hours: Lots of misc...
20070109, 4 hours: Spinner, ailerons, gap fairing...
20070110, 2 hours: Cowl sanding...
20070112, 4 hours: Emp fairings, prop extension...
20070113, 5 hours: Technical inspection, prop on...
20070116, 5 hours: Eclipse VLJ, Prop bolts torqued, emp bottom fairing, flaps...
20070117, 7 hours: Emp fairing, spinner...
20070118, 4 hours: Panel decals, Spinner...
20070119, 6 hours: Drilled spinner...
20070120, 5 hours: Spinner...
20070121, 4 hours: Spinner mostly done...
20070122, 4 hours: Spinner done...
20070124, 6 hours: Cowl, panel...
20070125, 6 hours: Ailerons re-rigged, lots of misc......
20070128, 5 hours: Brake fluid, decals done, aft fuse finish...
20070129, 4 hours: Canopy revealed...
20070131, 4 hours: Misc...
20070202, 4 hours: Oil door, cowls complete...
20070203, 4 hours: Wing walk...
20070207, 4 hours: Tunnel cover...
20070208, 3 hours: Antenna wiring...
20070210, 4 hours: Seatbelts, marker beacon...
20070212, 3 hours: Forward fuselage wrap-up...
20070213, 5 hours: Sound insulation...
20070214, 4 hours: Tanks open...
20070215, 5 hours: Redid exhaust mounts...
20070217, 5 hours: Tanks closed up...
20070218, 4 hours: Center floor cover...
20070219, 4 hours: Closing up the airplane...
20070220, 3 hours: Forward cabin...
20070301, 4 hours: Hose routing...
20070309, 5 hours: Wing root fairing, fixed brake leak...
20070312, 4 hours: Inspecting firewall-forward...
20070313, 4 hours: Installing CDI...
20070314, 5 hours: Wiring finished...
20070315, 4 hours: Cabin checkout...
20070316, 4 hours: Oil in, ready to weigh...
20070317, 5 hours: Airplane weighed...
20070320, 3 hours: Last skin / aileron trim...
20070321, 4 hours: Fixed brake leak, doc check...
20070323, 4 hours: Aileron stops done, spinner again...
20070325, 6 hours: First engine start...
20070326, 4 hours: Spinner, top/front skin...
20070328, 4 hours: Misc...
20070329, 4 hours: Fixing Dynon Compass...
20070331, 4 hours: Electrical mods...
20070401, 4 hours: Fuel tank calibration...
20070402, 5 hours: Pitot/static certification...
20070403, 5 hours: Top fuselage skin...
20070404, 6 hours: AIRPLANE IS DONE...
20070405, 2 hours: Hangar cleanup, prop balancing...
20070407, 4 hours: Pre-inspection inspection and airplane recovery...
20070408, 5 hours: Elevator re-rig, condition inspection...
20070409, 5 hours: Condition inspection complete...
20070411, 5 hours: Relocated engine controls, taxi attempt...
20070412, 4 hours: AIRWORTHY...
20070414, 4 hours: Gust locks, recowling...
20070416, 3 hours: Taxi test / brake conditioning...
20070423, 3 hours: Control stick mods...
20070425, 4 hours: New fuel line, mostly...
20070426, 3 hours: New switches for stick grip...
20070506, 3 hours: Final fixes...
20070507, 4 hours: Debugging Lightspeed ignition...
20070509, 4 hours: Reassembling airplane...
20070510, 4 hours: Runup, final checks...
20070527, 4 hours: Cowl hinge, carb idle mixture...
20070604, 3 hours: Flew to the hangar, first flight scheduled...
20070610, 8 hours: Transition training...
20070615, 4 hours: First flight...
20070622, 2 hours: This build log is done...
20070624, 0 hours: Flying/maintaining Blog...
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