Monthly Archives : February 2021

Right wing fairing complete!


Wow baby, that was a bigger pain than one would think. Lots of nutplates – check. Metal forming – check, minimal room for riveting – fucking check. Only had to drill out two nutplates that interfered with the rivets to the fuselage, that would have been nice to note in the manual. Yep, I’m a little salty. Still remaining is…

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Brakes oh my


So yesterday I spent over an hour trying to figure out why the brakes were dragging. Today I was committed to solving this drama. I took the brakes apart again. This time I found that the bolt holding the brake assembly to the axle had an interference issue. Why was this not in the manuals??? Still the rear pad was…

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Wire Used In My Build


I ended up with some excess wire left over but not an obscene amount. The table below shows all of the wire I purchased for my build and was used to complete 100% of the wiring in my plane

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