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Where it All Starts3/9/2018 What a DAY! ABF had a delivery window of 8am to 5pm, soo much for anxiety... Well at 2pm I just happen to notice a big green truck coming down the street, well I lied I was actually sitting in the garage all day waiting. Conference calls and all, took em right there in the garage with my finger on the "end call" button. IT COULD ONLY BE ONE THING! EMPENNAGE and tailcone arrival! Awesome driver, he offered to unload and even maneuvered the box right where I wanted it, and my biggest fear of a gaping hole in the side from a forklift was quickly alleviated as there wasn't a scratch on this thing! Awesome job ABF! Well no time to waste immediately got to inventorying to which I discovered there were about 2 dozen misc parts on backorder, of which two were the bearings for the VS which is basically the first thing you do, bummer! Well good thing about a new kit is there is still plenty of work to be done so I did what I could without the bearings and then moved on. Took a couple hours to inventory everything and shouted holy crap (in other words) when I opened the box of rivets! Nearly 15K of them. BTW Vans does an amazing job packing these kits, everything was packed in that crate like they were meant to be together, but NOT FOR LONG! Started on 6-02 with separating the Vertical Stabilizer hinge brackets then shape, file, match drill, debur and clecko until it hit me that the bearing is on B/O. Ahwell put that to the side and onto 6-03 prepping the Left and Right spar caps and match drilling the #30 holes for the upper and lower caps. I was just in a groove when momma pops her head in the garage holding an empty gallon jug for milk. "OK, ill be right back" quick run to QT and then get the babies ready for bed. Be back at it tomorrow folks. Goodnight
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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 |