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Empennage
Everything Rearward of the Baggage Compartment/ Sub-Kit 1 of 6
Tailcone Complete4/15/2018 I went back to look at my last few posts and realized I was missing a lot of build pictures and took me a bit to figure out what happened. Then I remembered when I was doing the routing of the static lines and AST servo cable I attempted something new by trying to video it using my gopro. Little did I know about 30 mins in the gopro died and of the very little footage I do have I don't know how to edit it which may be something I explore more when I move onto the next kit. The good news is the tailcone is complete, it took a while to rivet this thing up, but 3 days of on and off and I finally finished it. Overall i'm satisfied with the way it turned out. There are a few spots, especially in the top skin where the edge break tool jumped onto the skin mangling it and after lots and lots of trying to save the skin it came out ok in my book. There are a couple spots where there is a slight budge at the skin joint but overall not too bad. I attempted to move onto section 11 which is assembling the empennage and into the first page it looks like Vans doesn't supply the hardware to do this as I am completely out of the 3-4 bolts which are called upon to attach the vertical stabilizer to the tailcone on the forward side. So it looks like for now the project is on hold for the most part until I can order the fuselage kit. I can still do the fiberglass fairings on the VS and rudder and cut and finish the remaining parts for the servo motor. The build time log is up to date as for this post and based on Vans estimation of 800 hours I feel I am on schedule. See yall soon with updates and when the fuselage kit will be ordered. BTW I know the wing kit is listed next but I am going to roll ahead and do the wings last to save space for working around the fuselage/empennage sections.
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January 2019
Empennage Total Build Hours: 82.24
Inventory: 1.45 Vertical Stabilizer: 13.26 Rudder: 7.5 Anti-Servo Tabs: 4:30 Stabilator: 24.11 Tailcone: 30.42 |