September 19-21, 2020 Our kit of wingtip lights arrived from Flyboy Accessories so we decided to change gears a bit and install these. This kit was incredibly easy to build and install. All the solder points are huge and even a complete beginner can do it with just a little practice. We spent a half... Continue Reading →

August 31, September 2 - 2020 After finishing all the rigging on the right wing, it was time to reinstall the access panel and reseal the tank. Luckily I ordered two tubes of proseal the first time around, so I had one more sitting in the fridge. I also installed all the nutplates for both... Continue Reading →

August 27, 30, 31 - 2020 Since the right wing was now installed, it was time to do all the rigging work on that side. This was a basic repeat from the left side so there's not much new information here. Since we didn't seat the flap hard against the bottom fuselage skin on the... Continue Reading →

August 20, 21, 23 - 2020 Disaster struck the garage today. While rolling the wing out of the garage one slipped off the stand and hit the ground hard. You can use a hardware store bolt through the center mounts and they'll act as a retainer to stop this from happening. Turns out we forgot... Continue Reading →

August 18-20, 2020 I spent a few days redoing the right wing conduit. Previous posts highlighted that I had accidently installed the conduit near the upper skin instead of the lower skin. This interfered with the aileron push rod and had to be corrected. Since we already riveted on the lower wing skin, it was... Continue Reading →

August 14, 2020 While the wing was installed we went ahead and put on the intersection fairing. This was all pretty simple metalworking. A new concept is used here to locate the holes on the lower fuselage skin though. You can use any straight line, just mark the 1, 2, and 3" spots from where... Continue Reading →

August 12, 2020 Installed the left flap today and did the fuselage cutout for the flap push rod. I started by drilling a pilot hole through the side skin and opened it up to fit the small dremel sanding disk. I also drilled a hole down through the floor that would allow the dremel to... Continue Reading →

August 11, 2020 Mounted the left aileron and did all the final rigging on it. We started by holding the aileron bellcrank in position with the jig supplied in the kit and adjusted the short control link to put the aileron in trail. Then the longer control rod got installed between the bellcrank and the... Continue Reading →

Aug 9-10, 2020 Installed both wings for the first time. We took our time and did it one at a time on the first day to make sure nothing would go wrong when we installed them to set the incidence and sweep. Hardware store bolts with a tapered end and some wheel bearing grease and... Continue Reading →