Monthly Archives: November 2011

Day 71: Wing Skeleton Completion (4hr 15m)

November 27, 2011
Day 71: Wing Skeleton Completion (4hr 15m)

The wing skeleton has a rear channel that is made up of two channels that get joined in the middle together with the strut attach bracket. A angle bracket is then attached to one of the channels (I forget which it was) and one side is back drilled into for some A5 rivets. Here...

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Day 70: Wing Ribs and Tiedown Hook (3hr)

November 23, 2011
Day 70: Wing Ribs and Tiedown Hook (3hr)

The big news is that my Dad is in town for the rest of this year and although he initially appeared hesitant to get involved on the project, once he saw what was needed he seemed very much into it. And having someone look things over, hold stuff etc made it a lot easier...

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Day 69: Wing Spar (20m)

November 19, 2011
Day 69: Wing Spar (20m)

Back after a little break with some small amount of wing building. We had a new floor put down in our living room and we needed the garage space for furniture so I had to break everything down, put things away and for a couple of weeks I was able only to read the...

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Some Interesting Stats

November 8, 2011

This month’s issue of Kit Planes has a directory of kit planes including stats on the 750: Time to buold: 350 hrs Estimated completed cost: $38-65K No completed and flown: 45 Maybe I am further along than I thought.

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100 Hours

November 6, 2011
100 Hours

Somewhat coincidentally, the finishing of the tail came at 100 hours into the project. So far I have completed: the rudder the horizontal stabilizer the elevator the slats the flaperons and have started on the wings by assembling the slat supports to the wings nose ribs. I’m pretty impressed by the amount of metal...

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Day 68: Elevator Finished (Again), Wing Spars (45 m)

November 5, 2011
Day 68: Elevator Finished (Again), Wing Spars (45 m)

Really not much to say here, I re-attached the elevator skins to the spar and riveted. This completes the elevator, again. Hopefully this is ok now though I wonder if this time around is any better than my original attempt. With the tail done, I decided to get the first wing spar out of...

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