Today I worked by myself preparing the tail ribs for installation (the start of section 211). These are the ribs that attach to the rear spar and the false spar/trailing edge and make up the rear o...

Countersinking We started the build today by using Craig’s countersink cutter to countersink hole #24 on the rear spar reinforcement. We did this by first testing and adjusting the cutter depth us...

The day after I worked on the plane last Craig was able to disassemble the CherryMax puller a bit more and remove the air piston. He spread the existing grease around a bit over the o-rings and re-...

The plan for today was initially to finish the rear spar reinforcement cap by installing all of the rivets. Unfortunately, when Craig got here and we tried to get started, we discovered that the Ch...

Today Craig and I worked on installing the rear spar reinforcement cap per section 191 of the wing manual. This is an 1/8” strip of aluminum that is riveted to the top of the rear spar just to the ...

The plan for today was for Craig to come over with the jig he made to try to help remove the problematic rivet from the front pulley bracket. My grandfather and I had a bit of time while we were wa...

My grandfather came in to visit for the weekend and we got to work on the plane together some which was awesome! Since we were still waiting to be able to remove the rivet from the wing we decided ...

Good news first - I talked to Pete at CubCrafters about the scrape to the spar. He said that he would buff the scrape out more but that it looked completely fine to him and that I don’t need to rep...

I haven’t gotten a lot done on my build the past couple weeks because I was working with Craig to get his plane caught up with mine and then get it a little farther ahead (all the way through insta...

Trammeling Craig came back today to help finish up the steps we mostly completed yesterday and to get a bit more done. We started by adding Loctite 721 to each of the jam nuts on the drag wires an...