It’s been a crazy summer for us. Decided to go back to school in May and that picked up in July making this month a bust. So it’s probably only been a few hours between June and July.
I did make an interesting discovery that has added about 1.5 hours of work to the project. My impeccable timing meant that I figured out the hole where the bolt goes to attach the forward spar to the fuselage was not straight enough. After a quick email to RANS the fix is to replace the inside and outside doublers to get a fresh start. This would have been a somewhat simple process if I had caught it earlier. It’s not too bad now, just annoying. The process meant removing the root rib and clip, removing the fuel tank, remove the forward bolt on the compression tube, and removing the rivets holding the doubler in. This took about 40 minutes since I was taking it slow. Waiting on the parts from RANS to get everything reinstalled.
We both were able to go up to Oshkosh for a day. This meant Maria got to sit and look over the plane. She seemed excited about it and I imagine relieved that it was actually possible to get an airplane from a box. Got to look at engines and start to dream about some avionics. It’s pretty neat what’s out there for experimentals at a pretty reduced cost compared to the certified world.
Until next time.
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