Fuselage

Landing Gear Part 2 Drilling

Hours this entry: 6

October 18, 2020 chris

Aligned the Landing Gear by clamping a piece of angle iron to the face of the gear legs. Then we pulled a string to either side, cross checking it with a tape measure. The string method is similar to how we used to mount wings on RC aircraft.

Also dropped four plumb bobs across another piece of angle on the floor to cross check.

Right gear leg mostly drilled. Lots of Boelube all over. The outer holds on both the inner and outer weldments weren’t drilled yet.

Fuselage, Landing Gear

Landing Gear Part 1

Hours this entry: 5

October 3, 2020 chris

Started working on mounting the landing gear. Drilled the center holes on the U-804 inboard main gear attach brackets and started to line up the gear. Decided we wanted to recheck the various methods and needed a few more tools to do it right and paused for the time being.

Fuselage

Fuse Parts Priming/Paint

Hours this entry: 2.0

October 1, 2020 chris

Add some light sandable primer over the self-etching primer, smoothed it out and then shot the color to match the interior since this will be seen from the cockpit and also in the baggage compartment.

Also primed the F-8104-L + R support ribs.

Total Build Hours: 383.25
Empennage: 149
Fuselage: 207.75
Wing: 0.0

RV8 Build Log

Monthly Archives: October 2020

Landing Gear Part 2 Drilling

Landing Gear Part 1

Fuse Parts Priming/Paint