Canopy Frame – gas struts
Page 34-02 Step 1 Final-drilled gas struts Spent 1 hr
Turtle deck painted
Page 25-06 Prepped and painted the both parts of turtle decks F1277R and F1277L Spent 4 hrs
Brakes lines
Pages 35-05 and 35-06 made and installed brake lines on the main gear legs The way the lines attached to the main gear legs looks kinda ugly. I’ll address this cosmetics later. Spent 4Hrs
Trial Fit Wings
Attached the wings to the fuselage for the first time Took a bit of effort to fit them and insert the spar pins. Had to trim the wings skin about 2-3 mm and file both forward and rear stabs a …
AB4-6 rivets losing their buttons
While attaching flaperon’s pushrods I found that all of the AB4-6 rivets used in the SERVICE BULLETIN 14-12-06 lost their buttons. The rivets used to attach F-1206J Angles to the F-1206A Bulkhead. All 6 buttons were recovered from the bottom of …
Fuselage Pin Assembly
Put together the pins that will be keeping wings attached to the fuselage. Needed them to adjust position of the pin switches. Pretty straight forward task Spent 1 hour.
Engine mount
A fellow plane builder welded together the additional engine mount brackets that will be attached to fuselage longerons if I decide to use Viking 130 engine. The idea is taken from Viking video about 130 installation on RV-12 Viking uses …
Wings completed
Fully completed wings. There are a few minor thing left – Finalise the fibreglass mount for strobes and attach the nutplates to the inspection panels Spent 8 hours (i think)
Wings – almost finished
Spent 3 days of Melbourne Cup holidays working on wings. Almost completed them. probably need 2 more hours to finish them. Spent 24 hours all up.