Chris's KRSuper2 build site

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 0.5 Hours

Summary: Micro on the rudder

Details: Spread out some micro on the rudder. * worked on Paul's canopy and set up some lines to form the shape of the turtle deck.

Monday, April 12, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder and fuselage

Details: Sanded and shaped the rudder top & laid up micro on the fuse.

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 3 Hours

Summary: Fuselage and rudder

Details: Worked on more body work and added a layer of BID on the tail light and wrapped the upper rudder.

Monday, March 08, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut out and sanded the glass around the tail light and laid up micro on the fuselage.

Sunday, March 07, 2010 - 3 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Filled around the light mount with urethane foam and sanded to shape. Micro'd and glassed the tail light. Also sanded the fuselage to smooth it down.

Friday, March 05, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut our section in top of rudder to mount a tail light. Epoxied the mount into place.

Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut a couple of holes in the bottom of the rudder to fish out the guide string to pull lighting wires through.

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded hinge holes and cut down to shape.

Monday, March 01, 2010 - 0.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Trimmed and sanded the hinge holes.

Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut holes for the hinges and glassed in the holes around the hinges.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Micro'd and glassed the foam on the leading edge.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 0.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded the leading edge more.

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded leading edge to shape.

Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: The foam didn't take so I cut it down, wrapped it again and filled it with foam. (Don't know what happened, maybe the temperature was too low in the shop and it caused the foam to collapse.)

Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Wrapped the leading edge of the rudder to pour in polyurethane foam.

Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Glassed the mis section of the rudder.

Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Glassed the bottom of the rudder.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded trailing edge of rudder and laid up 1-BID on the top.

Monday, February 01, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded trailing edge of the rudder and micro'd the edge.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 3 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded top and bottom of the rudde. Laid up CF on the bottom.

Monday, January 25, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Laid up the other side of the rudder with CF.

Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded foam on other side and micro'd a straw with wire lead string into the foam.

Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: cut and sanded top foam into shape and laid up CF on one side.

Friday, January 22, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut foam down to size.

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut foam for the rudder and epoxied it into place.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: H-Stab and V-Stab

Details: Sanded more.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: H-Stab and V-Stab

Details: More sanding.

Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: H-Stab and V-Stab

Details: Sanded and added more micro.

Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: H-Stab and V-Stab

Details: Sanded and added more micro.

Friday, January 15, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: H-Stab and V-Stab

Details: Sanded and added more micro.

Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded. Then added more micro. The purpose to this is to get the parts smoothed out with a good finish before putting them onto the aircraft.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded. Then added more micro.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded. Laid up more micro.

Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 3 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded. Ran string up through the rudder for wire run.

Friday, January 08, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Drilled hole for the tail light rudder to run through.

Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal - Sanded and sanded.

Details: Sanded and sanded.

Monday, January 04, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: Horizontal and Vertical

Details: Sanded and laid up some micro on teh V-stab and H-stab.

Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 2 Hours

Summary: Horizontal

Details: Sanded and sanded.

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal

Details: Sanded and sanded.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal

Details: Sanded and sanded.

Monday, December 21, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded, sanded, and sanded. Then micro'd.

Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Cut and trimmed the CF on the rudder. Sanded and sanded the elevators.

Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Laid up CF on other side.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Prepped rudder for Carbon Fiber and laid up the CF.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded the rudder and filled with some Micro.

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded and filled in the micro on the rudder.

Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 3.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Finally got a factory hot wire cutter and cut out the foam on the rudder. Sanded and micro'd the rudder.

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Added micro to the other side of the elevators.

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Cleaned Elevators and applied micro to one side.

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Micro

Details: Cleaned top side of the H-Stab and applied a layer of micro.

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stab surfacing

Details: Cleaned and prepped the surface of the H-Stab and applied a layer of Micro.

Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder build up

Details: Cut out the foam for insertion into the rudder frame. Micro'd the foam into place.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Horizontal

Details: Prepped the H-Stab tips and added a 2nd layer of BID.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator and fuselage

Details: Sanded elevator tips. Cut out template for floor boards and cut out section for heel rest.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded the elevator tips into shape and prepped for glassing. Laid up the glass on the elevator tips with a second layer of BID. Quote from a fellow EAA'er: "Building a plane is like eating an elephant. It takes some time to finish it and occasionally you have to eat the asshole." The elevators have been our big chuck of asshole that we have been chewing on for about 3 months now. Can't wait to start on the rudder!

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded the elevator tips into shape and added micro to low areas. Also micro'd the leading edge tips and filled the edges on the floor supports.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Trimmed the glass on the elevator tips and sanded to shape.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Trimmed the glass on the edges and micro'd and glassed the bottom side.

Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded elevator tips into shape- micro'd and glassed the top side. Glassed in the floor supports.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator/horizontal

Details: Sanded down the elevator tips and added micro to the elevator rib to bring it up level with the horizontal.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Epoxied the elevator tips into place.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Epoxied into position on the rudder spar the nutplate for the bolt that secures the rudder control horn.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Sanded the rudder ribs and carbon fibered the joints for the extra rib.

Monday, November 02, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator and rudder

Details: Attached elevators to the H-stab and checked alignment. Cut out extra rib for the rudder and epoxied it to the spar. Micro'd radiuses on the rib and micro'd the edges of the top and bottom ribs. TECH Note: Paul and I decided that the bottom of the rudder needed more support so we added the extra rib for support.

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Ground down the elevator control horn attach points and refloxed then attached the elevators to checked alignment.

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder spar

Details: Cut out a section to flox in the rudder control horn.

Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Cut out the foam where the elevator control horn attached and floxed it to fit.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder.

Details: Trimmed up the CF on the rudder and sanded the elevator.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Laid up 4 layers of Carbon Fiber on the rudder ribs.

Monday, October 26, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder

Details: Broke off the top rib and had to realign it all and micro the ribs into position.

Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder control horn

Details: Made control horn for the rudder out of 2"x2" alum. angle.

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stab

Details: Lined up the V-Stab on the H-Stab and epoxied the ribs into place on the rudder spar.

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stab

Details: Sanded V-Stab and joined the bottom panel with 2 layers of BID.

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stab

Details: Added more flox to the V-Stab.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stab

Details: Installed pulley in V-Stab and floxed it to the H-Stab.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stab

Details: Installed the pulley in the V-Stab. Mounted the H-Stab to the fuselage and mounted the V-Stab to the Horizontal. Aligned it all with a laser and floxed it in place.

Monday, October 19, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder spar hinges

Details: Worked on attaching the nutplates to the rudder spar.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Rudder spar

Details: Sanded rudder spar to fit. Ground down the nutplates to fit and painted them.

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator and rudder

Details: Cleaned up glass around the hinge points. Sanded rudder spar. Paul worked on his elevator tips.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator hinge opennings

Details: Carved out, micro'd and glassed the elevator hinge opennings.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Continued to size up the elevators to the hinge points.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Rudder and elevator

Details: Cleaned up rudder spar and sanded it. Worked on sizing up the openings for the hinges on the elevator.

Monday, October 12, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Marked and cut out the opennings for the hinges.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Marked out where the hinges are and cut holes to find them. Sanded rudder spar and cut out the holes for wooden assholes and floxed them in.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Sanded again and glassed the otherside of the elevators.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Sanded ends of the elevators and covered the caps.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Glassed the top side of the elevators.

Monday, October 05, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded, sanded, and sanded the elevators.

Friday, October 02, 2009 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Glassed the trailing edges on the elevators.

Thursday, October 01, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Sanded, micro'd and prepped the elevators for glass. Paul worked on his rudder frame.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded micro on the trailing edge. Riveted nutplates into the control tunnel.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded Micro on the trailing edge and filled in some more micro.

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 4 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Trimmed elevators to allow for the rudder travel. Trimmed up the trailing edge. Plucked out the foam to fill with micro.

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Shaped leading edge, filled in attach points w/foam. Shaped to radius. Micro'd and glassed over leading edge radius.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded the leading edge foam radius into shape.

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded and trimmed the CF. Worked on fitting the leading edge templates. Epoxied on the leading edge foam to form the radius.

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 0.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Continued trimming the CF.

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 0.5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Worked on trimming down the Carbon Fiber.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded and prepped for CF- micro'd and laid up the CF on the top sides.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Filled gaps with micro and foam on top side.

Monday, September 14, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Sanded, prepped the elevator for CF. Cut CF and peel-ply. Laid up the bottom of the elevator.

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Filled gaps with foam and micro.

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Continued sanding into shape.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Worked on sanding elevators into shape.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Cut elevator foam into shape with saw .

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Micro'd left elevator foam in place. Shaped most of it and then micro'd the right one in.

Monday, September 07, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Fitted the foam to the elevators.

Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Attempted to cut foam for the elevator.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Made radius template for leading edge of elevator. Riveted nutplates to the fiberglass holders and epoxied them to the elevator ribs.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator work

Details: Made elevator nutplate holders adn sanded micro and carbon fiber into shape.

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Micro'd elevator ribs and laid up fiberglass on the tail hook - 4 layers.

Sunday, August 30, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Cleaned up the carbon fiber and redrilled the holes.

Friday, August 28, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator - CF

Details: Laid up carbon fiber on the rib ends for the elevator.

Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevators

Details: Sanded radius and prepped for the carbon fiber.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar

Details: Micro'd radius on the joints of the ribs.

Monday, August 24, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar

Details: Attached spars to H-Stab. Leveled up and attached the ribs.

Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar

Details: Sanded and micro'd edges on both the elevators and the rudder spar.

Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 5 Hours

Summary: Elevator

Details: Redrilled holes for the hinges. Attached nutplates with rivets and micro'd into place.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar

Details: Laid up 2 BID on the front side of the spar and 1 bid on the other side. Cleaned up flox around the tail hook.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator continued

Details: Realized that we forgot to put wooden hardpoints (wooden assholes) in. Made some more and removed the rivets from the spar. Drilled out the spar for the wood inserts and floxed them into place. Floxed tail hook into place.

Monday, August 17, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator work

Details: Worked on Elevator spar, lined up elevator spar to drill holes. Only got one side done. Paul finished off his CF joints.

Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar work and baked fuselages.

Details: Baked the fuseslage for about 7 hours under a tarp in the hot sun. Worked on the elevator spar and put together the weldments. Painted all of the metal pieces. Paul worked on lining up his elevator frame and then locked it in shape with the carbon fiber.

Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 1 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar work.

Details: Worked on grinding down the aluminum attachments to fit the spar.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator work

Details: Cut out wooden assholes and drilled holes for the doublers. Filled with micro and inserted wooden assholes. Paul made hard points for attaching the control horn to the doublers.

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Elevator spar work

Details: Drilled out holes for the elevator spars and sanded spars to fit.

Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 5 Hours

Summary: Elevator work

Details: Tried to sort out the elevator control horn and doublers, sanded elevator spars to shape. Mocked up the rudder pedals and worked on the front floor of the fuseslage.

Saturday, July 04, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Empennage - Elevator bellcrank

Details: Finished Elevator bellcrank and riveted it to the bearing. Made metal plates to fit the tail tie downs.

Friday, July 03, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Vertical nutplates and bellcrank for elevator.

Details: Sanded and cut motor mounts to size. Cut and Scotch Brited the aluminum pieces to attach nutplates. Riveted nutplates into place. Paul worked on cutting out his elevator bellcrank and drilled holes for riveting the bearing into place.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stab

Details: Elevator pulley assembly

Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: V-Stab

Details: Laid up the flange fo r the other side of the V-Stab. Paul aligned the empennage onto his fuselage.

Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: V-Stab.

Details: Laid up a flange for the V-Stab. Paul worked on his Upper motor mounts.

Friday, May 22, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: V-Stab

Details: Worked flange for V-Stab.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Sanded V-stab and cut out rear fuselage to fit it in. Used the laser to align everything and drilled holes for the dowel rod to position the V-Stab. The pictures show the seat back in place and the flanges that we built to support the seat back. Also shown is the lining up of the control tunnel.

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Rerouted the com antenna cable for the V-stab to come out the front, then micro’d the holes.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Worked on empennage

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Worked on empennage

Monday, April 06, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Vertical Stabilizer

Details: Shaped and micro’d the V-stab

Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Sanded the V-Stab for a groove to install the antenna. Had Paul solder the antenna connections. Epoxied and micro’d the antenna. Paul works on a wing spar.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 0.5 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Glued on the leading edge of the vertical stab

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Sanded out the tail and glassed it up

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 2 Hours

Summary: Empennage

Details: Reworked the tail with micro and micro’d the V-stab

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 7.5 Hours

Summary: Fuselage

Details: Microed and laid up BID on the inner radius of the fuselage

Friday, January 09, 2009 - 3 Hours

Summary: H-Stab

Details: Laid up 2 layers of BID on teh leading edge of the H-Stab to build up area in the joggle that I made too deep.

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 5 Hours

Summary: H-Stab

Details: Sanded and Micro'd H-Stab, laid up the UNI and BID

Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: H-Stab

Details: Sanded and used filler micro for H-Stab.

Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Worked on H-Stab

Details: Worked on flange for H-Stab

Monday, December 15, 2008 - 2 Hours

Summary: H-Stab

Details: Micro'd ribs on H-stab and shaped leading edge.

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal leading edge

Details: Sanded H-Stab. Paul - Filled imperfections on leading edge

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stab

Details: Micro’d the rib edges on the H-Stab and did some filling (body work) to even up the leading edge before covering.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stab

Details: Finish sanded the backside of the H-Stab to prep for cover.

Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 4 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stab and Paul's fuselage.

Details: Floxed panels into place and covered Fuselage sides.

Friday, December 05, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Closing out Horizontal

Details: Heated each panel with the heat gun to warp them and make them fit better. Left them weighted in the center for the night to cure.

Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Closing out Horizontal

Details: Sanded panels to fit for the backside of the H-Stab.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: EAA tech inspection!

Details: Put our H-Stabs in the truck and took them to have Bill See (EAA Tech Advisor) inspect and sign off on our work. – YEAH! We passed!

Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 6 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer

Details: Finish sanded the H-Stab to prep for covering, then vacuumed it off and put down a layer of micro. Covered one side of the H-Stab with one sheet of UNI then wet it out. Added one sheet of BID over the UNI and then wet it out. Once it was all wetted out, I blotted up any excess resin with paper towels and then smoothed it all out with peel-ply.

Friday, November 28, 2008 - 2 Hours

Summary: Sanded V-stab and H-Stab.

Details: Finish sanded the H-Stab and added more micro to the rib caps to make a smoother finish. Tech Note -I added a joggle of about 1/16” to the leading edge on both sides to compensate for the overlap of fiberglass. Hopefully this will keep me from having to do more sanding and body work on the finish. Scott didn’t mention this in the manual, but it makes since so I confirmed with him that this is what he did.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Sanded V stab

Details: Sanded V stab

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 5.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal, vertical

Details: Sanded panel inserts for H-stab. Filled in rib edges with micro. Grinded out excess glass on the V-Stab and inserted foam and Great Stuff. Paul did the same stuff today but also decided to glass out one side of his H-Stab. Tech note – we used low density Great Stuff and we felt that something else should be used since this is very hard to work with after it cures. We chose to use the low density to keep the Great Stuff from deforming the V-stab as it expands. My suggestion is that we should cut the foam as close to fit as possible and then Micro the foam into place.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 6.5 Hours

Summary: Assemble vertical, flange horizontal

Details: Glassed joints on the V-Stab Laid up trailing edge flange on the H-Stab Cut out panels for backside of H-Stab Worked on Fuselage layout.

Monday, November 24, 2008 - 4 Hours

Summary: Sanded H-Stab and assembled V-Stab

Details: Sanded H-Stab and assembled V-Stab

Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Post cure complete

Details: Put Paul’s H-Stab in the post-cure box and let it cook at 160 degrees for about 6 hours.

Friday, November 21, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Post Cure of H-Stab

Details: Built a box to post-cure the H-Stab. Heat Cured the H-Stab for 6 hours at 160 degrees.

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 7 Hours

Summary: Post cure

Details: Built post-cure box out of ½ inch insulation foam for Lowes. Used Kerosene space heater to cook the H-Stab at 160 degrees for 6 hours. Note- H-Stab was lined up, leveled and clamped into position to keep it from warping.

Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 4.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer Sheeting

Details:

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer flanges

Details: Created flanges

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 3 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer Sheeting

Details: Cut out templates for sheeting, fit to size. Cut last-a-foam sheeting

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 2 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer

Details: Finished basic asssembly of H stab

Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 3 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer

Details: Attached leading edge

Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 4 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer Assembly

Details: Aligned and fixed ribs, formed leading edge

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 3 Hours

Summary: Horizontal Stabilizer Preassembly

Details: Installed aluminum plates with nutplates to the spar. Mounted spar to aluminum angle and check for straightness. Attempted to install ribs but had issues with alignment.

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Horizontal stabilizer

Details: Drilled out holes for installing eyebolts with nutplates.

Sunday, November 02, 2008 - 4 Hours

Summary: Finished nutplates. Mocked up Horz Stab

Details: Finished nutplates. Mocked up Horz Stab, and checked initial alignment for pop riveting nutplate plates. Starting to look like parts for two airplanes!

Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 1.5 Hours

Summary: Template for nutplates

Details: Created template for nutpate mounts from 1 1/2" wide aluminum, 2 inches in length. Setup drill press jig for production. Riveted nutplates to aluminum plates

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Holloween- We had candy, but no goblins showed up.

Details: Cut out hardpoints from 1/4" Birch plywood. Used hole saw to create cutouts for hardpoints in horizontal and vertical spars.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 3 Hours

Summary: Joined the elevator spar halves. Sized up the vertical.

Details: Joined the elevator spar halves. Sized up the vertical. Put excess epoxy and glass to use

Monday, October 20, 2008 - 2.25 Hours

Summary: Empennage continues

Details: Finished up the rib flanges and sized up the H-Stab

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 2 Hours

Summary: Flanges continued

Details: Laid up with Uni for flanges. Edges of ribs HRIB1, HRIB2 and HRIB3 as well as the inboard side of HRIB4

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 1 Hours

Summary: Separated ribs from flange jig

Details: Separated ribs from flange jig. Cut flanges to size. Prepped second set of ribs for flanging. Cut Uni for flange material.

Monday, October 13, 2008 - 2.5 Hours

Summary: Flange Ribs

Details: Laid up flanges on the ribs with 2 layers of BID about 2 inches wide – one inch for each surface.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 2 Hours

Summary: Create flanges

Details: Flanges were created by using a custom made flanging tool. We added flanges to both sides and both edges of HRIB1, HRIB2 and HRIB3 as well as both edges on the inboard side of HRIB4. Tech Note: We found that ¼” last-a-foam is too expensive to waste on SFTs so we used thick poster board purchased from Staples. Cut board to 1” wide and about 12” long. Glue two of these to another scrap 2.25” wide and 12” long. Use ribs to gap ¼” to create the space between the smaller strips. Gorilla glue is the best glue for board to board. Apply gorilla glue to one side and spray the other side with water. We want our flanges about 5/16” from the edge, so we need to build up the SFT (special flanging tool) with several strips of duct tape. The reason for this is that we will be sheeting with 3/8” foam sheets shooting for a nominal foam thickness of 5/16”, not more than 3/8” and not less than ¼”. Side note: These would probably come out a lot smoother and uniform if you built a jig out of plywood but it would take a lot more time to manufacture one. Might shave off a few grams and make the final panels more uniform to the H-stab= less sanding.

Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 3.5 Hours

Summary: Started basic horizontal assemblies

Details: Built special flanging tools (SFTs) for horizontal stabilizer ribs. Sanded H-stab and elevator leading edges.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 2 Hours

Summary: Cutout and cleaned up parts

Details: Sanded all previously cut ribs to size. Worked with Paul to keep progress in lockstep. Started cutting out vertical stabilizer parts

Saturday, October 04, 2008 - 1.25 Hours

Summary: Prepped sheet for parts cutout

Details: Marked the 1/4" sandwich for empennage parts. Rough cut into manageable sections, and bandsawed ribs and edges.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 3.5 Hours

Summary: Familiarity with fiberglass

Details: Laid up 1/4" fiberglass/core for horizontal stabilizer ribs, and 3/8 sandwich for horizontal stabilizer sheeting. Laid up another 3/8" sandwich for the empennage.