Build Log
All things build related
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Slow Progress is Progress
For various reasons I haven’t had a whole lot of time to dedicate to building the past couple of weeks, but I have gotten a little bit accomplished. My last update ended with me deciding to fabricate a spacer for…
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The Elevators Begin!
I’ve been home this week for professional training so I’ve been a little closer to the garage which has allowed me to sneak in a few minutes when I break for lunch every day. It also means that I’m that…
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Horizontal Stabilizer is Complete!
I have been terrible about updating the build log, but hopefully that stops with this post! Tonight, after one month and one day, I finished the horizontal stabilizer. Not as quickly as I would have expected, but the month of…
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Rudder Assembly
This post is largely a back-fill from memory a month after completion of the rudder. I got wrapped up in the build and didn’t take many notes or pictures of the vertical stabilizer or rudder, so I’ll just hit the…
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Rivets and Hardware and Skins, Oh My!
The empennage kit arrived today and man, oh man…das a lot of parts! Van’s really does an incredible job of packing a lot of parts and pieces into a relatively small 115″ crate, but I take minor issue with one…
