Build Log for Sonex 0849B
Began securing turtledeck skin by pilot drilling left side (every other hole). Repeated the same process on the right side. Will finish pilot drilling sides after formers are installed. Following B-Model plans. Located former #5 by marking centerline along top…
Up drilled left and right aft fuselage side panels to #30. Both panels up drilled for rivets per B-model plans. Did not up drill lower splice plate bolt holes. Hours Worked: 0.80
Created tracing paper templates of additional 7 holes to drill in lower splice plates per detail C. Placed tracing paper on splice plates and pilot drilled holes. Located lower splice plates along lower longerons per FC01 dimensions. Removed lower cross…
Laid out F20-06 turtledeck skins on workbench and trimmed aft inside edges per plans. Aligned edge of RH turtledeck skin to edge of F20-07 skin splice channel and transferred holes onto top flange. Temporarily assembled -02 turtle deck skin assembly…
Laid out and marked location of F20-10 former clips on right side of F20-07 skin splice channel per legacy plans. Temporarily attached with clecoes pending final fit with formers and fuselage. Hours Worked: 0.25
Flipped fuselage tail cone onto side and began up drilling fuselage floor to #30. Left forward lower corners of floor and #1 lower cross tie at pilot size to be completed when backordered fuselage conversion parts arrive. Up drilled AN525…
Inventory of a used Jabiru 3300 six cylinder, 120 horsepower engine purchased used from a private seller in Connecticut and shipped LTL. The engine was removed from a Legend Cub so the current owner could put a larger prop on…
Creation of -07 skin spar channel and -10, -11, and -12 clips from channel stock per legacy plans. Channel stock cut with snips and pilot holes drilled per plans Hours Worked: 2.50
Creation of -07L/R former clips from F07 stock. 1/8″ radius bends made using 1/4″ drill bit in vice. Angles verified with full size plans Hours Worked: 0.95
Used F26-05 crosstie plates to pilot drill four new holes in cross tie channel per B-Model plans. Hours Worked: 0.38
Located and pilot drilled new SNB-F26-04L/R upper splice plates to upper longerons based off of skin bend line. Located and final drilled cable fairlead blocks to #1 vertical channels. Verified alignment with rudder cable holes in vertical channels. Hours Worked:…
Completed pilot drilling and clecoing of aft fuselage floor to tail cone box. Attached crosstie box to cross tie splices and #1 vertical channels and clecoed bottom sheet into place. Fuselage still sits square with cross tie in place. Hours…