Fuselage- 1

April 27, 2014 - 10.5 hours, 352 hours total. It has been almost  month since I last posted. Progress continues on the airplane. It's been a busy month and unfortunately I've only put in about 10 hours on the project.
Last weekend I spent approximately 6 hours inventorying the fuselage kit. The kit arrived the first week in April. We were in Southern California at the time. The fuselage kit contians about 400 subassemblies, not counting the various fasteners, nut-plates, bushings, rivets etc. It's great to have things like fuel lines, brake lines, pedals, control columns etc. It's beginning to feel like a real airplane. I'm guessing it's going to take the better part of a year for meto complete the fuselage, we'll see! The wings, which aren't quite done took me nearly a year so far. Need to finish up the flaperons......working on them!!!

Talking about the flaperons. Here are the 22 ribs, 11 per side. All have been deburred and are ready to prime. I spent about 4 hours in the garage yesterday preping all of the other flaperon components. Everything is ready to prime, and then the fun part- assembly.

Fuselage kit inventory complete- majority of parts placed in a storage cabinet. The others, including some skins that you can't see are still in the shipping crate. Doesn't look like a whole lot, but beleive me, plenty of little pieces to assemble. Should be fun.