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Empennage Completion
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve made a post so to make up for it I’m including lots of pictures because, well…lots of words are boring. Something about the holidays makes me want to be unproductive in all manner…
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Airplane Parts, Assemble!
Now that most of the parts have been primed it’s finally time to get to the fun part: assembly! I only got a couple of hours in tonight, but that was enough to get the bulkheads and one of the…
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Prime Day!
Prime day, indeed. But not the fun, frivolous-crap-arriving-at-your-door Amazon kind of prime day. Nay, this is the kind of soul crushing, toxic fume huffing, sweat lodge treatment you can only get from a full 10-hr day of priming in the…
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Holy Deburring, Batman!
Not a whole lot of progress today. Some more fitting of parts, some deburring, etc. Nothing really exciting. My initial feeling is that this part of the build is going to go quickly; it’ll be interesting to look back on…
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Aft Fuselage Begins
With the elevators all but finished, save the twelve blind rivets I’m going to have to install on the bottom of the left and right skins, I started on the aft fuselage. Right off the bat, the plans have you…
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A Word of Caution on the Elevators
WARNING: READ THIS POST BEFORE INSTALLING THE FOAM RIBS. The elevators have been an exercise in patience (I’ll expand on that in a later post). I’m 69.5 hours in and all that’s left to do is roll and close the…
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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…
