Sanded down first tank support bow. Shape needs slight adjusting. Adjusted jig. Added filler sitka to completed bow to correct adjustment.
Aug 9
1.5hrs
2nd bow - tank support glued up. Sanding filler on first one to make it fit.
Aug 10
1.4hrs
Cut Sitka strips and glued up 3rd bow - tank support.
Aug 11
1.1hrs
Sanded glue off 2nd and 3rd bow. Made adjustments with filler to make a perfect fits on UWCS.
Aug 12
1.5hrs
More adjustments to the first bow. Rounded the ends on two of the bows.
Aug 13
1.4hrs
Cut and sanded round ends on 3rd bow. Drilled holes into all three bow.
Aug 14
1.4hrs
Routed corners of bows (supports under the fuel tank in the UWCS). UWCS plans review.
Aug 16
1.7hrs
Inventory of hardware
Aug 17
1.8hrs
Inventory of hardware
Aug 24
1hr
Making paper pattern for cowl ring support.
Aug 25
1.6hrs
Making plywood patter for cowl ring support.
Aug 27
2.4hrs
Cut out (8) cowl ring supports. Note: Supports keep cowl ring from twisting when making the fiberglass plug.
Aug 28
.8hrs
Test of UWCS hardware.
Aug 30
1.5hrs
Study of fiberglas/cf molds.
Sep 1
.9hrs
Started adjusting the shape of cowl ring supports.
Sep 5
1.5hrs
Finished adjusting shape of cowl ring supports (all eight). Sanding down the chips on the UWCS hardware so that I can touch them up with more paint before attaching to UWCS.
Sep 7
1.9 hrs
Confirmed the length of the two compression tubes for the UWCS and welded them.
Sep 8
1hr
Filed and sanded both compression tubes.
Sep 9
1.5hrs
More sanding of brackets for UWCS.
Sep 10
1hr
Finished sanding of brackets?
Sept 21
1.5hrs
Cut and fitting of foam for cowl ring mold.
Sept 22
2hrs
Study/videos of composites.
Sept 23
2hrs
More study and videos of composites. Another coat of paint on the UWCS hardware and tubes.
Sept 24
2hrs
More study and composite videos.
Oct 24
1hr.
Sanding of spars for better fits for brackets.
Oct 25
1.6hrs
Seal spars where I sanded them down. Thinking through the process of making the cowl ring fiberglass mold.
Oct 26
1.3hrs
Tapped the UWCS brackets into placed. Started attaching the "L" brackets.
Oct 27
1.5hrs
Putting hardware on UWCS brackets.
Oct 28
1.7hrs
More fitting up of the hardware to the UWCS brackets.
Oct 29
1.7hrs
STILL... more fitting up of the hardware to the UWCS brackets
Oct 30
1.6hrs
Fitting up the tabs/tubes for sway wires.
Oct 31
.5hrs
Painting sleeves for sway wire hardware.
Nov 1
1.5hrs
Bolt on and glue bow/hand hold to trail edges of ribs. Insert and bolt on hardware for inner box ribs.
Nov 2
1.8hrs
Fitting up bow wood gussets.
Nov 3
1.6hrs
Fitting up hand-hold plywood. Adjusting other gussets.
1.1hrs
Glue gussets to hand-hold wall. Fit up outer bottom panels.
Nov 4
1.8hrs
Sealed and glued in hand hold wall. Un-wrenched L-brackets for nose ribs.
Nov 5
1.8hrs
Drilled holes in L-brackets for the outer two nose ribs. Bolted these back onto the UWCS. Started aligning the outer two nose ribs. Need to trim down approx. 3/32 (I knew I would need to do this.)
Nov 7
1.8hrs
Aligned both outer nose ribs on the UWCS, drilled bolt holes. Glued in triangle blocks on trailing ege of bow.
Nov 8
1.8hrs
Reamed holes in outer nose ribs and bolted onto UWCS. Sanded gusset blocks for trailing-edge bow. Painted touch-up spar brackets. Drew air intake on 3/4inch ply.
Nov 9
1.8hrs
More touching up of paint on spar brackets. Cut 2 air intake wood build ups for plug.
Nov 10
1.5hrs
Fitting up air intake's plug wood pieces.
Nov 11
1.6hrs
Same as yesterday.
Nov 12
.6hrs
Review of Pitts 12 plands to see how to attach skin to spar brackets of UWWCS.
.5hrs
Glued up router jig for routing the 44" diameter hole in the 48inch x 48inch ply. This will sit over the cowl ring and come down to where the diameter is 44inchs (which is the diameter of the firewall). The diameter of the cowl ring is 46".
Nov 14
1.9hrs
Drilled the shafts of (2) AN4-22 bolts thinking I needed them. NOT!
Nov 15
1.5hrs
Figuring out bolts for UWCS.
Nov 16
1.3hrs
Figured out glue points for the UWCS nose cap ply. None are shown on the CAD plans. They only have the ply glued to the nose ribs... and nother on the but joint between the nose ply and the skin ply. Decided to glue in wood strips between the ribs on both the top and bottom.
Nov 17
2.1hrs
Cut wood strips for glue points for the lower edge of the spar. Ripped down 1/2inch square to 1/4 x 1/2.
Nov 18
1.5hrs
Marked nail locations and glued on wood cap strips to the lower edge of the front spar.
Nov 19
2hrs
Measured, cut, and glued on cap strips to the upper edge of the front spar.
Nov 21
1.8hrs
filed/sanded angles on to the wood cap stris for the nose ribs.
Nov 22
1.1hrs
Feathered down 2nd cap strip, figuring out nose ply installation. Must use two sheets becaue 1/16th inch ply doesn't want to bend to the radius.
Nov 23
1.8hrs
Touch-up ends of tubes with paint. Bolted on rear wire mount hardware. Figure out nose ply?
Nov 24
.8hrs
Attached hardware on front wire mount.
1.8hrs
Figure out openings for bottom forward spar openings. Drilled and cut out openings.
Nov 25
1.9hrs
Flange plate test piece (thin aluinum).
Nov 26
1.6hrs
Re-make of flange plate in .040 aluminum. Also, squared up opening in plywood.
Nov 27
1.9hrs
Squared up opening in 2nd ply. Made second flange plate, and both cover plates.
Nov 28
1.9hrs
Drilled machine screw holes in flange plates. Match-drilled all four anchor nut plates in one flage plate.
Nov 29
1hr
Match-drilled anchor nut plates in 2nd flange plate.
Dec 1
2.2hrs
Counter sunk holes for rivest and riveted on (1) nut plate.
Dec 2
1.5hrs
Working towards Excellence. Not liking the look of the 2nd flange with the nut plates. Started making a third flange.
Scarfing on ply to extend the edges of the outer two lower ply panels for the upper wing center section.
Dec 8
1.1hrs
Sanded to size then glued scarf joints.
Dec 10
1.4hrs
Sanded down scarf joint (upper and lower sides of panel) then trimmed to fit.
Dec 13
2hrs
Started making jig to hold UWCS at 15" heigh.
Dec 14
1.1hrs
Continued making jig.
Dec 17
2.5hrs
LIFT UWCS into place on jig on fuselage. Head Scratching.
Dec 18
2.8hrs
Raise, lower, raise... more head scratching on the UWCS.
Dec 19
2.5hrs
More of the same... Head SCRATCHIG!
Dec 21
1.5hrs
More MOre MORE! of the same head scratching. Three plans one plane.
Dec 23
1.6hrs
Yeah... more figuring it out. Or not figuring it out.
Dec 24
2.6hrs
Decision that I need to lift the bottom of the front spar to 21 1/8inches. Needto make a jig to try it out. If not... well we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Dec 25
1.5hrs
Figure out new UWCS support jig.
Dec 27
2.2hrs
Constructed new suppport jig for UWCS.
Dec 28
1.7hrs
Rigging up the UWCS on new support jig.
Dec 30
2.2hrs
Adjusting UWCS on support jig for height.
Dec 31
2.3hrs
Using plum bobs, I aligned the UWCS with the firewall tubing.