Saturday, March 28, 2009

Cleaning Up - Done with the Fuselage Kit for Now

Spent just 1 hour today working on the plane. Adam crawled into the fuselage and match drilled the panel base to the bottom of the mapbox. Nice to have a flexible, hard working son.

Assembly of the mapbox will have to wait until I receive the missing mapbox parts from Van's. Also will not be riveting the instrument panels. Still trying to decide if I am going to paint the 3 parts of the instrument panel or get them powdercoated.

Only other thing I did today was to drill the roll bar to #36 and then tap the holes 6-32 (a leftover project).

Started to read the plans for the finishing kit. Already have noticed I do NOT have the magnets or the plastic tubing for the large wing attach pins. Will send an e-mail to Van's.

Time Today - 1 hour Totals - 279 Hours on the Fuselage Kit (98% Complete), 108 Hours on the Empennage Kit (85% Complete), 175 Hours on the Wing Kit (100% Complete)