Total OneX Build Time: 1163.0 hours
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Tail Fairing
I’m not at all pleased with the way the tail panels came out. See the first picture. They required lots of bending to make them fit. It was non-trivial and I think I did a poor job. This became an opportunity to try out some composite technique. First was the... -
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Tail Gear
File! Grind! File! That’s how the day began. The horizontal tail and the rudder need to travel 25° up and down, left and right respectively. Not only that, their lever arms need to hit squarely with the surfaces they meet at the end of their travel. To achieve this meant... -
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Tight Quarters
The tail is attached! It all began last Friday. Christoph, a colleague from 8th Light in London was in town for a conference. After we flew to Sedona for lunch I convinced him to help me attach the tail surfaces to the fuselage. We tried out the vertical tail and... -
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Dimple Debacle
Three trips to the hardware store today. The first was to Ace to get a thread tap to make a threaded hole in the bellcrannk faces. Those are done. They’re for translating control inputs from the inside part of the wing to the outside, and they’re pretty nifty. Remeber the... -
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Gear Girl
My wonderful wife helped me today! Together we installed the main landing gear. It was a two man job. I got on my creeper under the plane to drill and install the bolts, while she handed me the bits and put on the nuts from above. What’s gonna work? Team...