The heat isn’t getting any better so I thought I would just put the skins onto the spar but it turned out I needed to do a little bit more first. I started off by putting some corrosion protector on the places where the skins would be making contact. While I was waiting for...
It’s hot (have I mentioned that yet) and so its a case of just doing a little when I feel like it and so today was some time to get things ready for rivet time. It started with finishing the deburring and then adding corrosion protector to a few surfaces. I’ve decided to take...
Too hot to really do anything but I stole a few minutes here and there to deburr some elevator parts. Easier than doing them all in one go.
One of the fun things we get to do with building our own plane is to choose an instrument panel that we like. On the Zenith website someone posted a picture of their panel and I think this is almost what I would (currently) go for, but maybe with the 8″ EFIS rather than...
I took the day off today so that my brother in law could bring the wings kit around and I could unpack it and put it in the dog run. He arrived early in the morning with the crate on a trailer. Inside was some inventory sheets I laid out the pieces on the...
I got notice a while ago that the wings were going to be here earlier than I thought, I had been expecting mid-late August and yet they were already out for shipping. I’d been advised that the crate weighted 345lbs and I’d be responsible for unloading it. Um, ok, how will I do that?!...
So today marks the one year anniversary of drilling my very first hole in the rudder. Since then I’ve spent 80 hours of work on the project and have completed the: rudder leading edge slats flaperons horizontal stabiliser and I am about 90% done on the horizontal tail. I have no idea what kind...
The final day of drilling on the elevator! First I flipped the elevator over and drilled out the remaining holes to their final sizes. I then started disassembling everything, marking everything I could with letters to help identify where they go during the re-assembly. Hopefully learning my lesson from the stabiliser! During insertion of...
The first task of the day was to centre the servo actuator so that it was in the middle position. That way it will have maximum forward and back motion in the plane. To do this I used a 9V battery to measure the full in and full out position and moved the actuator...
The 750 has an electric trim tab so installation comprises two parts: placing the trim tab inside the rear skin, and installing the servo motor inside to operate it. The trim tab has no pre-drilled holes so the first task was to draw a line 8mm from the edge and marks holes at approximately...