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Work Logs Found:
265
Category Work Time:
633 Hours
Date
Hours
Work Log Summary
Details
10-13-2024
1.00
09-01-2024
1.50
Replacement top fuselage skin
Details
08-26-2024
1.50
Exhaust scoop final riveting
Details
08-18-2024
2.00
Rear seat frame
Details
08-11-2024
2.00
Front seat back assembly
Details
08-05-2024
2.50
Final riveting the bottom skins together
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08-03-2024
2.00
Riveting with Ethan
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07-08-2024
4.00
Wing kit arrives and inventory
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06-26-2024
2.50
Sealant and the exhaust scoop
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06-24-2024
2.00
Forward fuselage skins
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06-23-2024
2.00
Side vent and more riveting
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06-15-2024
4.00
Rear instrument panel and forward skins
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05-29-2024
0.00
Powder coated part disaster
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04-13-2024
5.00
Carbon fibre rear panel and sound box
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04-07-2024
5.00
Carbon fibre rear seat panel
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04-01-2024
4.00
Spray painting day!
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02-25-2024
3.00
Forward under belly skins
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02-21-2024
1.00
Landing Gear Skin cut outs
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02-13-2024
0.50
Landing gear inboard wear plates
Details
02-11-2024
4.00
Undercarriage Alignment
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11-25-2023
3.00
Riveting
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09-10-2023
2.00
Bolting and riveting roll over support
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08-28-2023
1.00
Pitch servo install
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08-27-2023
3.00
Autopilot pitch servo attach point
Details
08-19-2023
1.50
More riveting
Details
05-29-2023
1.00
More spar attach point rivets
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05-27-2023
1.00
More riveting near spar attach point
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05-14-2023
1.00
Fixing more errors
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05-10-2023
1.00
Fixing errors
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05-09-2023
2.00
Technical Counsellor Visit
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05-09-2023
2.00
Tech Counsellor Report
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04-30-2023
1.00
Riveting
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03-26-2023
2.00
More riveting!
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03-18-2023
2.00
Rear seatbelt attach points
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03-05-2023
1.50
Tidying up the garage and quick riveting
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03-03-2023
2.00
Various riveting
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02-25-2023
2.00
Horizontal braces riveting and cockpit side rails
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02-25-2023
3.00
Details
02-11-2023
2.00
Tail cone riveting and clecoing rails
Details
02-04-2023
1.00
Out in the sunshine
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01-29-2023
2.50
Riveting bottom of mid side skin
Details
01-29-2023
0.00
First time sitting in the aircraft!
Details
01-27-2023
4.00
Replacing left engine mount and FWD skin riveting
01-26-2023
2.00
Drilling out left engine mount
01-15-2023
4.00
More side skin riveting
Details
01-06-2023
0.00
Nightmare rivets (Continued)
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01-06-2023
5.00
Nightmare riveting
Details
01-04-2023
4.00
Riveting lower longerons on the other side
01-03-2023
5.00
More riveting the canoe
01-03-2023
0.00
Moooore riveting
Details
01-01-2023
5.00
Riveting lower longerons
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12-31-2022
5.00
Fire barrier time!
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12-30-2022
5.00
Rear bulkhead riveting
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12-30-2022
0.00
More pics
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12-29-2022
4.00
Air vents and fuel system
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12-28-2022
5.00
Attaching the upper longerons!
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12-27-2022
4.00
Riveting the side skin supports
12-26-2022
5.00
Spray painting
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12-24-2022
3.00
Dimpling and prepping for paint
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12-23-2022
2.00
Riveting the foward outboard seat ribs
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12-04-2022
4.00
Smoke Pump Install
Details
12-03-2022
4.00
Prepping for paint and forward side skin replaceme
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11-20-2022
10.00
Prepping and painting most of fuselage
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10-30-2022
6.00
Prep for painting
10-30-2022
0.00
Painting and big stuff up
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10-23-2022
4.00
Stuff up and finishing the longerons
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10-23-2022
0.00
More pictures
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10-16-2022
6.00
Service bulletin and infinite dimpling
Details
10-09-2022
4.00
Dimpling...a lot
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10-02-2022
2.00
Dimpling
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10-01-2022
2.00
Deburring...a lot
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09-27-2022
1.00
Dimpling and deburring
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09-26-2022
1.00
Dimpling
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09-25-2022
5.00
Major dimpling progress
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09-24-2022
5.00
Deburring....a lot
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09-04-2022
2.00
More countersinking....
Details
09-04-2022
4.00
Countersinking the upper longerons
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08-21-2022
3.00
Countersinking....
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08-20-2022
2.50
Countersinking mission starts
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08-14-2022
2.00
Fuel selector valve and support
Details
08-01-2022
2.00
Countersinking main spar skins
Details
07-31-2022
4.00
Disassembling the fuselage
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07-24-2022
2.00
Trial fitting autopilot pitch servo supports
Details
07-10-2022
2.00
Tail wheel spring fitting
Details
07-09-2022
2.00
Tailwheel spring fitting
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06-19-2022
1.00
Top of gear boxes
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05-22-2022
2.00
Cockpit rails
Details
03-05-2022
4.00
Rear turtle deck skin
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03-01-2022
1.00
More longeron drilling
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02-27-2022
2.00
Finishing left upper longeron
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02-18-2022
4.00
Drilling the mid skins and aft skins
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02-15-2022
5.00
Drilling forward skins
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02-15-2022
0.00
Another quickVans response
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02-11-2022
0.00
Quick response from Vans
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02-06-2022
2.00
Edge distance from radius
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02-06-2022
2.00
Clamping and measuring longeron edge distances
01-30-2022
3.00
Fuselage dolley started and longeron tweaks
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01-29-2022
5.00
Success finally....skins and longerons are in!!!
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01-26-2022
4.00
More fighting
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01-25-2022
5.00
Fighting with rear fuse lower skins...painful
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01-23-2022
2.00
Tailwheel spring cut out and visit to Rick's 650 b
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01-22-2022
2.00
More pics
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01-22-2022
4.00
Assembling rear side skins
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01-20-2022
3.00
Fabricating rear passenger seat belt attach bracke
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01-07-2022
2.00
Deburring prepping and spraying rearbulkheads
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01-05-2022
2.00
Rear bulkheads
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01-04-2022
2.00
Rear fuselage bulkheads
Details
01-03-2022
3.00
Front Fuselage Skins
Details
01-01-2022
2.00
Rear rudder pedal brackets
Details
12-30-2021
2.50
Gear tower rivets
Details
12-29-2021
2.50
Mid side skins
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10-16-2021
7.00
Lower longerons
Details
10-10-2021
2.00
Longeron bending and side reinforcement plates
Details
10-05-2021
2.00
Completing riveting the rear cockpit floor
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10-04-2021
3.00
More riveting fuselage floor
Details
10-03-2021
2.00
Riveting time...
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10-02-2021
5.00
Spray painting and assembly
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09-29-2021
2.00
The first bends (lower longeron)
Details
09-26-2021
2.00
The dreaded longerons
Details
09-25-2021
2.00
More deburring etc
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09-11-2021
1.50
Finishing off access hatch mod
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09-05-2021
3.00
Instrument Panel Modification
Details
08-21-2021
2.00
Deburring etc
Details
08-02-2021
2.50
Cockpit floor ribs and trim
Details
08-01-2021
4.00
Rear cockpit floor
Details
07-30-2021
3.00
Main spar
Details
07-25-2021
6.00
Big build day plus child labour
Details
07-24-2021
5.00
Batch spray painting
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07-18-2021
3.00
Rear main spar bulkhead
Details
07-17-2021
4.00
Main spar
Details
07-16-2021
4.00
Access hatch continued and main spar area
Details
07-14-2021
2.00
Deburring and creating access hatch
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07-13-2021
3.00
Cockpit bulkheads
Details
07-12-2021
3.00
Finishing gear towers
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07-11-2021
0.00
Gear tower braces
Details
07-11-2021
5.50
Attaching gear towers and braces
Details
07-10-2021
3.00
Gear tower riveting and bolts
Details
07-10-2021
2.00
Attaching gear towers to cabin floor
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07-08-2021
1.00
Bolting and riveting
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07-04-2021
3.00
Right gear tower
Details
07-03-2021
2.00
Spraying up parts
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06-26-2021
2.00
Fixing mistake and riveting
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06-25-2021
1.00
Redoing the other gear tower web
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06-21-2021
1.00
Gear tower cover
Details
06-19-2021
3.00
Finishing forward floor and more gear towers work
Details
06-17-2021
1.00
Forward floor stiffeners
Details
02-01-2021
1.00
Covers
Details
01-31-2021
2.00
Gear towers and covers
Details
01-30-2021
2.00
Starting gear towers
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01-26-2021
0.00
Sky designs aerofoil gear legs arrive
Details
01-26-2021
0.00
More pics....forward floor
01-26-2021
5.00
Forward floor
Details
01-21-2021
0.50
Firewall riveting and deriveting
Details
01-18-2021
2.50
Riveting Firewall
Details
01-17-2021
5.00
Prep and spray painting firewall angles
Details
01-16-2021
0.00
Loose Clecos
Details
01-16-2021
3.00
Firewall countersinking
Details
01-15-2021
3.00
More firewall preparation
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01-14-2021
1.00
Firewall prep
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01-10-2021
3.00
Final inventory steps and starting firewall
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01-09-2021
5.00
Inventory
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01-08-2021
1.00
It's arrived!!!!!
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12-26-2020
2.00
More fibreglassing....
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12-24-2020
1.00
More glassing
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12-23-2020
0.00
More photos
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12-23-2020
2.00
Left elevator tip fairing
Details
12-22-2020
3.00
More fibreglass work
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12-21-2020
1.00
Starting rudder fibreglass tip
Details
12-21-2020
4.00
Fibreglassing......arrrghhh
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11-28-2020
3.00
Elevator fairing
Details
11-22-2020
1.00
Rod end tool
Details
11-22-2020
3.00
Building the fuselage dolly
Details
11-21-2020
3.00
Trimming horizontal stabiliser
11-15-2020
0.50
Elevator Fairing
Details
11-01-2020
1.50
Bending the leading edge
Details
10-30-2020
1.00
Final riveting elevator trim tab and hinge
Details
10-25-2020
2.50
Prepping the trim tab and servo cover for paint
Details
10-24-2020
0.50
Undoing mistakes
Details
10-24-2020
1.00
Trim servo cover take 2
Details
10-17-2020
0.50
Stupidity
Details
10-11-2020
5.00
The dreaded elevator trim tab
Details
10-11-2020
0.00
Extra trim tab photos
09-27-2020
0.00
Folding the left elevator tab
Details
09-27-2020
4.00
Bending skin and final assembly
Details
09-26-2020
0.50
Couple of rivets
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09-22-2020
1.00
Bits and bobs
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09-21-2020
1.00
Trim hatch reinforcing plate
Details
09-20-2020
1.00
Finishing right elevator stiffeners
Details
09-15-2020
1.00
Right elevator stiffeners riveting
Details
09-13-2020
1.50
Right elevator skeleton
Details
08-30-2020
2.00
Leading edge bends
Details
08-26-2020
3.00
Final riveting
Details
08-26-2020
0.00
Ethan helping out
Details
08-25-2020
1.00
Error
Details
08-24-2020
1.50
Drilling out rivets...
Details
08-23-2020
1.50
Riveting
Details
08-23-2020
0.00
More riveting...
Details
08-22-2020
4.00
Prime time....
Details
08-15-2020
2.00
Elevator trim servo panel errors...
08-08-2020
1.00
Elevator trim section
Details
08-05-2020
1.00
More deburring and dimpling
Details
08-03-2020
3.00
More deburring etc....
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08-02-2020
5.00
A good day working...
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07-28-2020
1.00
Further deburring etc
Details
07-27-2020
1.00
Dimpling and deburring
Details
07-26-2020
3.00
Back at it....
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07-09-2020
0.00
Fuselage ordered
Details
07-07-2020
2.00
Finishing rudder leading edge
Details
07-06-2020
2.00
Bending rudder leading edge
Details
07-03-2020
2.00
Rudder issues
Details
06-29-2020
2.00
Riveting up rudder
Details
06-28-2020
2.00
Riveting rudder stiffeners
Details
06-27-2020
2.00
Rudder skeleton and skins
Details
06-26-2020
2.00
More final riveting of the horizontal stabiliser
Details
06-17-2020
2.00
Even more riveting
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06-16-2020
1.00
More riveting
Details
06-15-2020
3.00
Horizontal stabiliser riveting
Details
06-14-2020
2.00
Riveting rudder skeleton
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06-13-2020
4.00
Prep and Paint for Rudder
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06-12-2020
0.00
R710 outcome
Details
06-12-2020
2.00
Prepping the rudder skeleton
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06-11-2020
2.00
Backriveting
Details
06-10-2020
2.50
Right elevator back riveting
Details
06-09-2020
1.00
Third time lucky R-710
Details
06-09-2020
2.00
Right elevator skin and stiffener priming
Details
06-09-2020
1.00
Back riveting "practice"
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06-06-2020
4.00
Right elevator stiffeners and skin
Details
06-04-2020
3.00
Stiffeners and skins
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06-03-2020
2.00
Stiffeners prep
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06-02-2020
2.00
More wasted time and money
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05-28-2020
2.00
More stiffener prep
Details
05-27-2020
2.00
Elevator stiffeners
Details
05-26-2020
2.00
Starting right Elevator
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05-24-2020
1.00
Rudder skeleton work
Details
05-24-2020
0.00
Potential paint scheme
Details
05-21-2020
2.00
Fabricating 717 and 716
Details
05-19-2020
1.00
Dimpling stiffeners
05-12-2020
1.00
Rudder stiffener deburring and scotchbrite
Details
04-26-2020
5.00
Rudder work
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04-25-2020
3.00
Vertical stabiliser finished
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04-25-2020
0.00
Vertical stabiliser error
Details
04-25-2020
1.00
Starting the rudder
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04-24-2020
0.00
Vertical stabiliser final assembly (continued)
Details
04-24-2020
5.00
Final assembly vertical stabiliser
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04-24-2020
0.00
Final assembly of vertical stabiliser (continued)
04-23-2020
4.00
Vertical stabiliser priming and spar riveting
Details
04-22-2020
2.00
VS dimpling
Details
04-21-2020
2.00
Priming prep
Details
04-18-2020
4.00
Starting vertical stabiliser
Details
04-17-2020
3.00
First flush rivets
Details
04-12-2020
5.00
Spray painting day
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04-11-2020
3.00
Dimpling time
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04-09-2020
6.00
Deburring
Details
04-04-2020
3.00
Deburring and prepping for primer
Details
04-03-2020
2.00
Drilling to final size the right hand HS
Details
04-01-2020
1.00
VA 146 final riveting
Details
03-30-2020
2.00
Isham Tools Arrived
Details
03-29-2020
2.00
Deburring
Details
03-19-2020
2.00
Horizontal Stabiliser
Details
03-15-2020
4.00
Horizontal Stabiliser Front Spar
Details
03-14-2020
5.00
Horizontal Stabiliser
Details
03-07-2020
2.00
Horizontal stabiliser spar clean up
Details
03-03-2020
2.00
Inventory
Details
03-01-2020
0.00
SAAA Membership
Details
02-23-2020
4.00
Building Workbench
Details
SITE NAVIGATION
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RV8 Home
Category
# Logs
# Hours
All
265
633
Elevators
50
87
Empennage
1
4
Fuselage
161
424
Horizontal Stabilise
17
49
Miscellaneous
6
8
Rudder
19
35
Shop Supplies
1
2
Vertical Stabiliser
9
20
Wings
1
4
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