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Catching up...

8/17/2021

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It’s been a little over a couple of months since my last update and a lot has happened in that time.  The biggest news of all is the wait is over!  On July 8th we took delivery of the empennage kit, the wing kit and the fuselage kit.  All in all it was 5 very large boxes and a couple of longer tubes.  The delivery driver actually works for a company that specializes in shipment of aircraft parts and has a few decades of experience in doing it.  He clearly loves his job.
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The wing spar and the box of the wing parts are shown here.
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This kit contains the undercarriage kit and fuselage kit material.  Both from the front and the side
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There was a little damage to the end of the wing spar box, however there was so much packaging material around it that it really didn’t make much of a difference.  We definitely made sure we inspected it pretty closely just to be sure
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The other end faired much better.
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When the shipping company called me to let me know the delivery was underway, they gave me an ETA of about an hour until it would arrive, so I headed out for a quick walk.  I was about 15 min into my walk when I got a call saying “the driver is here”.  Not a big deal in the end, but it was just kinda funny about the disconnect between the driver and the dispatch center
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We’re now ready to get busy!
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We cracked open the wing box to take a peek inside
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The prep work included building a few work tables and the documentation seems to indicate only an 8 foot table should work for the empennage.  So that’s where we started.
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I quickly outgrew that and added on the second of the two tables.  Having more space just was better/easier.  This is the elevator part starting to go together
Having the dimpler is definitely a great tool to have.  We also got the horizontal stabilizer put together
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And then the vertical stabilizer as well
Overall we are making great progress.  We are missing a number of one-off parts which is preventing us from completing pretty much each of the sections.  The missing parts are all on order and should be in reasonably soon.  But we aren’t waiting.  We’ll clear off some room once we have finished cleaning the surfaces and tidied up the parts we have and then start working on the wings!  We’ll have a new update coming up in September.  For those of you not watching our YouTube channel, I’m going to try to keep that up to date as well.  This was our introductory video which mirrors much of the same details mentioned here, but in a video format. 

​If you'd like to watch the video aspect of our progress, please see our video here:
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