Craig came by again today to help me and together we match drilled all of the holes for the fuel tank extension skin into the rear spar. Once again, we used the drilling jig for this so, other than...

Very short update today. I just worked briefly in order to mark the positions of the holes to be match drilled through the leading edge skin and the back side of the front spar cap. I am waiting to...

After a bit of a mixup (I accidentally ordered the leading edge skin for the standard range wing instead of the extended range), I finally have the replacement leading edge skin and some time to wo...

Today my grandfather and I continued working on the leading edge skins for the left wing and finished the rest of the rivets in the 3 most outboard skins. We weren’t able to do any more than this b...

My grandfather and I continued to work on the plane today and focused on the leading edge skins. First, we installed the stall warning horn ground wire to the spar web per section 441, finishing th...

My grandfather is in town for a long weekend visit and to help me on the plane! We didn’t have a ton of time to work on the build today but we did install the wingtip, landing light, and stall warn...

I started today by finishing the installation of the landing light housing1. I removed the clamps and checked the glue, which had dried well. After that, I countersunk and pulled the rivets in the ...

Craig came by again today and we drilled and riveted the spar-side rivets for the leading edge skins. This was a long and tedious process of carefully drilling hole with jig, deburr, install cleco,...

Today was another long day of working on leading edge skins - this time on the final skin in the fuel tank bay. The complication of this skin, besides the sawhorse getting in the way and making thi...

Today I worked on the landing light skin using mostly the same process as described in the previous entry. The main difference was that I needed to remember to prep the landing light housing and pu...