Category: Horizontal Stab

I still have to wait another 24 hours for the pro-seal to finish curing on the rudder before I can continue with that, so I

With the rudder done and out of the way, I got back to work on the horizontal stab. While the rudder was curing, I got

I had planned to spend a lot of time in the garage working on the plane this weekend, but the world had a different plan.

Daylight Savings Time, working over the weekend, a long day of work, and a lack of sleep are catching up with me. I wanted nothing

Tonight was a fun night as we got to see a lot of visible progress in a pretty short amount of time. It was the

Not much to explain about tonight. Colleen drilled a lot of little holes. I followed behind her marking them done and moving clecos. We got

I had the day off from work, so my plan was to get a lot of work accomplished on the horizontal stabilizer. I started the

I had some time to sit down and actually get a little bit of work done on the plane tonight. Specifically deburring all the holes

Just a little more work done tonight. I did all the hole deburring on one of the HS skins, scuffed it up (in prep for

Colleen is out of town on business for the next few days, so I had to enlist Sawyer’s help on the -10. Unfortunately, he doesn’t

Got a lot done in the airplane factory tonight! First, I finished scuffing up the remaining ribs. My hands always end up looking I’m turning

I was able to test out a new sprayer I bought for priming tonight… while priming. It’s a “Critter” and it works on the same

Lot of running around today, but I was able to get a few hours in and begin the riveting on the HS. You begin by

All week long, I keep thinking that I’m going to get a bunch of time that I can dedicate to the plane, and it keeps

You guessed it. I did some more riveting tonight. Two hours worth. I’ve been using my left hand to hold the bucking bar, but I