Over the next week I will get that finished up and then start mating the rear fuselage to the center section. If all goes well the plan will be to have the main fuselage on the wheels and off the bench so I can finish up the work on the wings. The hinge replacement left CA today and will likely be here next week with all the supporting parts. Once I finish the hinge replacement I will be able to finish getting the fuel tanks onto the main wings. Just to refresh, the hinge for the right wing was the wrong hinge (bent left instead of right), so I have to remove the bottom skin, change that out and then reattach the skins. Not what I was looking forward to doing, but it should go pretty smoothly.
It's been quite a month and it's not yet over. This month I have the luggage door pretty much together. I can't complete it entirely until the top skin is attached and that won't happen for a few months. I got the main floor together and attached to the wing spar. The rudder pedals are installed with the only thing left there is to attach the rudder cables to them. I also started working on the control toque tube installation. That's going to take a little bit to accomplish as I'd like to have them set in there and operating very smooth before finishing that up. Over the next week I will get that finished up and then start mating the rear fuselage to the center section. If all goes well the plan will be to have the main fuselage on the wheels and off the bench so I can finish up the work on the wings. The hinge replacement left CA today and will likely be here next week with all the supporting parts. Once I finish the hinge replacement I will be able to finish getting the fuel tanks onto the main wings. Just to refresh, the hinge for the right wing was the wrong hinge (bent left instead of right), so I have to remove the bottom skin, change that out and then reattach the skins. Not what I was looking forward to doing, but it should go pretty smoothly.
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It never gets old. A couple of weeks go by and it doesn't feel like I've made much progress and I come back to look at these pictures and video and I see how far I've come. At this time the right wing has the wingtip removed and when the hinge comes in I'll be ready to swap that out. The workbench is quickly not being able to support the fuselage, so it'll go on the mains here soon. That will be quite the milestone to reach. In looking at some of the pictures here the wiring isn't in the final location after making a couple of test runs on the install. My nephew Nathan and my father-in-law Harold were over again to help with the build. Having the extra hands has been super helpful. As the weather gets warmer I should have the garage door open a bit more and it will be more pleasant to work in the garage. Today I took delivery of the finishing kit... but I moved that straight into storage as I don't have the room to get into that right now, but I do need to get the inventory done on it to make sure it lines up with everything they indicated shipped. At this time the only things needing to be delivered will be the avionics, the interior kit and the engine... I gotta get back out into the garage and keep going! :D |
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