Author: Jonah

Forward fuselage assembly and drilling.  Randy started deburring the wing spar spacers, which was a total waste of time because the spacers are temporary until we install the wings.  Sometimes looking ahead far enough to grab parts and debur them doesn’t work out.  But most of the time it does.

Berck: 6 hours, Randy: 6 hours, Jonah: 4.25 hours

Randy spent a lot of time measuring and cutting this to the required shape. It’s enough to make you wonder why Van’s can’t manufacture it to that shape?

Here’s our fancy stainless steel heater control boxes.  We figured that since Van’s went through all the trouble of giving us a stainless steel firewall that we probably shouldn’t just put aluminum boxes in it.

We also ignored Van’s’s instructions about sealent, and opted for 3M Fireseal insteal of proseal on the firewall.  Seems more better.

Randy: 7 hours, Berck: 4 hours, Jonah: 3.5 hours