| Sat 3 |
7
|
Made step reinforcement from birch plywood. Made
foam patches for gaps in corners on aft portion of fuselage.
Patched foam damage on bottom near F-22. Applied duct tape around
landing brake. Finished cutting all the aluminum mounts for the
landing gear bulkheads. |
5 |
| Sun 4 |
7
|
Floxed the wood step reinforcement into place.
Microed the hole patch. Microed foam into the corner gaps. Floxed
all the aluminum mounts into place. Routed the channel for the
marker beacon antenna. Fixed the void under the NACA scoop. |
4 |
| Tue 6 |
7
|
Sanded to shape all the patches I put in place.
Cleaned the workshop - way over due. |
1 |
| Wed 7 |
7
|
Added the marker beacon antenna to the bottom.
Soldered the coax cable to the copper tape. Cut foam to cover
channel.
Made templates for glass used in NACA channel.
|
2 |
| Fri 9 |
7
|
Glassed both insides of the NACA scoop. Have quite
the Rube Goldberg setup to hold the glass in place around all the
corners. Microed the marker beacon cable in place and filled the
trough with foam. |
4 |
| Sat 10 |
7
|
Sanded the previous layup. Made flox corners in
the scoop. Rounded the edge of F-22, landing gear bulkheads, and
firewall. Layed up two layers of UNI on the fuselage bottom. Added
the 3 ply UNI reinforcements over the landing gear attach points
and engine mount. Peel plied everything. |
10 |
| Sun 11 |
7
|
Made the canard cutout infront of F-28. Contoured
the length of the right side. |
2 |
| Wed 14 |
7
|
Removed foam for the fuel site guage and made the
1/16" depression aft of F-22 on the right fuselage side. Patched
some divets too. |
1 |
| Sat 17 |
7
|
Contoured the other side, made the other 1/16"
depression, removed foam over the other fuel gauge, and finished
patching divets.
Built and installed the new fuselage supports that allow the
fuselage to rotate.
|
5 |
| Sun 18 |
7
|
Prepared the side for glassing and added a coat of
slurry. Added 3 plies UNI on whole side, added 3 layer longeron
reinforcement, added 3 UNI, 2 BID engine mount reinforcement. Peel
plied. |
9 |
| Mon 19 |
8
|
Pieced together a bunch of scrap PVC foam. Traced
all the shoudler support and headrest pieces. Cut out the shoulder
support pieces and began cutting to shape. |
2 |
| Wed 21 |
8
|
Applied one layer of BID on all the headrest foam.
Finished cutting shoulder support to shape. Made four 1 1/4" square
plywood mounts. Began making aluminum nutplates for shoulder
support. |
3 |
| Sat 24 |
8
|
Cut out all the head rest parts and 5 minuted them
together. Sanded all the edges round. Made cutouts for all the
plywood inserts and 5 minuted them into place on the shoulder
support. Finished all the nutplates. |
3 |
| Sat 24 |
7
|
Prep work so I can glass the other side. |
1 |
| Sun 25 |
7
|
Finished preparing the other fuselage side and
added the three layers of UNI and all the local reinforcements.
Peel plied everthing as appropriate. |
8 |
| Tue 27 |
8
|
Made the four plywood reinforcements and the four
aluminum angle attachments for the seatbelts. |
4 |
| Wed 28 |
8
|
Drilled three holes in each of the aluminum
brackets and drilled the four holes in the step. |
1 |
| Fri 30 |
8
|
Sanded where the seatbelt attach points will go.
Cut all the BID for seven layers each. |
1 |
| Monthly Total |
66 |