Date: 2-22-2019 1 hour Participants: Sue Date: 2-23-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 14:00 Hours: 3 hours total (5 person-hours) The horizontal stabilizer seems HUGE. We started working on its frame Friday after work, only to realize that we had accidentally grabbed several of the right size rivets but of the… Continue reading Day 6 – Horizontal Stabilizer Frame – 2/22-23/2019
Date: 2-11-2019 1.5 hours Participants: Sue and Rob Date: 2-17-2019 1.5 hours Participants: Sue and Rob Hours: 3 hours total (6 person-hours) The ‘twist’ issue made us a little nervous and was a bit of an annoyance to figure out how to measure well. But in the end we concluded we had no significant twist… Continue reading Days 4&5 – Vertical Stabilizer 2/11/2019, 2/17/2019
Date: 2-10-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 14:00 Hours: -hours total (8 person-hours) After a bit of a wait for schedules and tooling, it’s time to build again. Took a few minutes to figure out the pneumatic riveter setup, but well worth it. And a lot of fun to use too.… Continue reading Day 3 – Vertical Stabilizer 2/10/2019
Date: 1-26-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 15:15 Hours: 4.5 hours total (9 person-hours) We had everything we needed, so we got started. It almost seemed too easy, but after Cleco-ing everything together it was time to rivet. Those Clecos are great inventions btw. Using the hand-squeeze riveter started out as… Continue reading Day 2 – Rudder 1/26/2019
Date: 1-25-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 09:00 End Time: 11:00 Hours: 2 hours total (4 person-hours) HEY! This is just a sample entry. Trying to figure out the format! Woo Hoo! We got our kit. After fetching the big box from the other hangar, we began unpacking it in our workspace. Under the… Continue reading Day 1 – Unpacking the Empennage Kit 1/27/2019