Section: 8
Hours: 8
I assembled the cradles for the horizontal stabilizer and fluted and polished ribs.8

Section: 8
Hours: 8

Today I began prepping the horizontal stabilizer parts (on the table). Lots of edge filing and polishing, rib fluting and hole deburring.

Section: 7
Hours: 5

It's been tough getting out to the garage. I've been super busy with the iPhone apps, family health problems and a new puppy.

Woody, our Australian Shepard retrieving the morning paper.

Today I test fit and match drilled the rudder parts.

Not much to report lately. I've been very busy working on updates to my iPhone apps. Apple keeps changing the operating system in ways that make previously working code stop working :-( GraphNCalc83 has been taking a lot of time to support and update and is keeping me out of the garage.

Took delivery of the wing kit today. I had to borrow my neighbor's pickup again, the trucker refused to drive up my street because of the low hanging branches of the trees next to the road. The 2 crates arrived in good shape. Looks like there was a little forklift damage to one end of the wing skins crate, but no parts were damaged. Van's does an amazing job of packing everything into these crates.

Section: 7
Hours: 8

Riveted VStab frame and skins.

Section: 6
Hours: 9.5

I washed, acid etched and primed the vertical stabilizer parts

Section:7
Hours: 8

I assembled the rudder skins and match drilled the holes. Then I deburred the rudder parts and dimpled the skins.

Deb helped out with some deburring.