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Europa |
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| September, 2004 |
Europa A-055
September 4th
Did final fitting of the doors and bonded shoot bolt sockets in place, port and starboard. Cut top of tunnel to facilitate the installation of the parking brake system. Fabricated mount for parking brake valve and mounted it. Installed fittings and brake hoses. Fabricated actuating lever and cut slot for it, in the tunnel top. Checked movement of arm, for binding and proper throw. Finished installing door pistons and bonded wire loom into overhead of baggage bay...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 8 hours
Total: 525 hoursSeptember 5th
Trimmed and sanded door reveals. Bonded in port and starboard wiring channels. Pulled port and starboard, overhead wiring, through channel. Bonded starboard wire loom to wiring channel. Fabricated parking brake knob and painted. Trimmed Plexiglas windows to fit doors...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 4 hours
Total: 529 hoursSeptember 6th
Finished glassing in wiring channels. Finished transition from port and starboard, overhead, wiring looms to channels...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 2 hours
Total: 531 hoursSeptember 7th
Pulled the fuselage out of the cradle and laid her up on the table, on her side. Sanded the belly and started filling. First coat is done...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 2 hours
Total: 533 hoursSeptember 8th
Sanded lower fuselage and refilled the parts that needed a second coat. Lined the inner firewall with another layer of stainless and sealed with hi-temp sealer...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 2 hours
Total: 535 hoursSeptember 9th
Sanded lower fuselage again and refilled the parts that needed it. Mounted main wheels to axles...
Time: 2 hours
Total: 537 hoursSeptember 10th
Finished sanding lower fuselage and primed. Installed main gear struts and set her on the ground...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 2 hours
Total: 539 hoursSeptember 11th
Sanded and prepped fuselage, then filled both sides. Roughed in and bonded in port and starboard fresh air vents...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 4 hours
Total: 543 hoursSeptember 12th
Sanded fuselage, then filled both sides, again. Getting closer...
Time: 2 hours
Total: 545 hoursSeptember 13th
More sanding and filling of the fuselage. Looking good!
Time: 2 hours
Total: 547 hoursSeptember 14th
Sanded the fuselage, once again. Still needed a little filler in two or three spots, so laid that in. Paint guy came over to give it a look-see. Gave it the thumbs up...
Time: 2 hours
Total: 549 hoursSeptember 15th
Finished all the rough-in sanding. Setup the "easy bake oven" and started post curing the epoxy...
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Total: 550 hoursSeptember 16th
Laid up flox to port aileron mass balance boxes. Sanded lower half of port wing and filled. Secured wing tip wiring...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 2 hours
Total: 552 hoursSeptember 17th
Sanded the underside of the port wing and refilled. Pulled the fuselage "out of the oven" and started doing the fine sanding on the door reliefs and around the front...
Time: 4 hours
Total: 556 hoursSeptember 20th
Sanded out lower port wing and turned her over, sanded upper surface and started filling...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 1 hour
Total: 557 hoursSeptember 21st
Sanded upper port wing...
Time: 1 hour
Total: 557 hoursSeptember 22nd
Finished sanding upper port wing and filled...
Time: 2 hours
Total: 559 hoursSeptember 23rd
Sanded on the port wing...
Time: 1 hour
Total: 560 hoursSeptember 27th
Back from the fly-in. Sanded the port wing and refilled. When is this going to end? :)
Time: 3 hours
Total: 563 hoursSeptember 28th
Sanded port wing, upper surface and filled. Sanded fuselage and applied first coat of primer...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 2 hours
Total: 565 hoursSeptember 29th
Sanded out upper port wing. Found one small spot that needed refilling, so, did that. Looks like a good "once over" and she's ready for primer. I'll finish the wingtip when the lenses arrive and the flap root extension when the flap actuator mechanism is in place.
Time: 2 hours
Total: 567 hoursSeptember 30th
Finished sanding port wing. Designed, fabricated and installed wing tie down plates on both wings. Hooked up quick connects for port wing wiring. Setup "easy bake oven" for port wing. Sanded bottom of starboard wing and did initial fill...
Click thumbnail for larger viewTime: 3 hours
Total: 570 hours
