Today was another very productive day working on the plane. We started by installing the compression tubes between the two spars and then match drilled and riveted the rest of the fittings onto the...

Today we started by placing the left wing into the holder and putting the spars for the right wing onto the sawhorses. Ready to start the right wing With that done (and the outboard sawhorse fli...

My grandfather came into town for a long weekend of helping me on the plane and this was day 1! Tank Extension Skin We started trying to finish up the left wing by installing the tank extension s...

Pitot Bracket Nutplates My friends from high school, Mitchell and Phillip, were in town today visiting and they helped me on the plane build. We started by installing the nutplates for the pitot ...

The new version of the manual specifies new torque values for some of the bolts. It does this in a table that is easier to understand but that also changes the values we used for a number of the AN...

Rib 5 Capstrip Fabric Rivet Holes The first thing I did tonight was match drill the fabric rivet holes through the capstrip in rib #5. There are several holes pre-drilled in the double rib and 3 h...

Tonight I worked on installing the capstrips on the tops of ribs #1 and #3. These capstrips form the inboard and outboard sides of the fuel tank bay and have nutplates that will eventually hold scr...

Rib 5 Capstrip I borrowed the CherryMax rivet puller from Craig today so I started by finishing the capstrip on rib #5. I had already countersunk the 3 holes in the capstrip and machined tail rib ...

Rib 5 Capstrip I picked up today where I left off yesterday on section 281 of the old manual/section 312 of the new manual, installing the capstrip on rib #5. I began by drilling the final hole i...

False Rib Now that section 25 and the nose ribs were done, I decided to skip section 26 of the manual (installing the wiring) because that can be done later and I still need to make new wiring har...