May 26 & 27, 2020 Today I finished fabricating the other 3 aileron mount brackets and riveted them to the rear spar of the wings. The brackets weren't hard overall, but some attention to detail was required since all 4 were unique and had different rivet call-outs, including specification to which side the rivet head... Continue Reading →
May 25, 2020 Now that we have a new hole in the fuel tank for the fuel level sender we needed to install nut-plates as well. None of our squeezers fit in that small of a hole, so we ended up modifying a bucking bar to go through the hole and shot the rivets in.... Continue Reading →
May 24, 2020 Since we were putting all the inverted mods into the first bay of the left fuel tank the fuel level sender had to go in the next bay over. To get access we pulled the fuel tank off the wing, which took a lot longer than expected. The instructions read like it's... Continue Reading →
May 23, 2020 So, unfortunately, there are no quick build specific plans set. Van's sent the standard plans and instructions and it is on us to go through them and figure out what's been done and what hasn't. Van's suggests that builders start with the empennage, then go through the wings, and finally tackle the... Continue Reading →
May 19-21, 2020 Stewart transport showed up in a fancy truck with a few airplanes in the back of it. We only got to keep one unfortunately. The truck was too big to get right up to our garage, but there was a convenient parking lot only 1/4 mi from the house. The plan for... Continue Reading →
May 15, 2020 After a couple of days lost in the mail, the replacement trim tab hinge came in. It didn't take long to mock it up and cut it to size now that I saw how everything was supposed to go together. An hour or so later and everything on the trim tab was... Continue Reading →
May 7, 2020 The QB wings and fuselage will be arriving soon and we really want to get the empennage finished and out of the way before that. The second-to-last step is to mount the elevators and rudder to the stabilizers and make sure everything can swing through its full range of motion. Since we... Continue Reading →
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