June 20, 2021

[<<Prev]                                                                                                                 [Next>>] I’m finally getting back into the airplane. I had taken nearly 3 months off from the project due to work demands. Now that I’ve got a work sabbatical actually set in stone, I’ll be able to really hammer on the airplane in a full-time manner.

I had prepped the vertical stabilizer parts over the last 2 weeks. Today I knocked out one of my least favorite parts of the building process–priming. Overall, the parts came out fine. Even after 8 years, I’m still trying to perfect the method of using the HFLP gun.

Here’s the skin:

Next up will be riveting the structure. The fun part. [<<Prev]                                                                                                                 [Next>>]