My grandfather’s flight was this afternoon but we decided to give trammeling another shot in the morning before he had to leave. As I mentioned before, the problem we were having is that we could n...

Yet another productive day today. We installed all of the fuel tank straps (including the felt) and the drag wires. This included the notch in rib#8 for drag wire clearance. We also started trying ...

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 ...