In short:

powerplant: almost done... remains: Reverse the electrical supply of the electrovalve and mounting on the plane.... Voir la page Moteur/réducteur.

Main Gear: Done but a glue plate to get a good support for the flanges. See the landing gears page.

Wings: Spars glued. See the wing page.

Fuselage: Fuselage structure completed, Empennage glued, 45° corners done. See the fuselage page.

Empennage: Vertical stabilizer glued. Yaw structure done. See the empennage page.

Stabilator: Structure glued. See the empennage page.

Composite Material: See the Composites page.

Powerplant/Reducer : powerplant
almost done, need to invert the turbo oil intake and change the solenoid valve . See Powerplant/Reducer .

Latest pictures:

Spar/wings: let's go outside	Wings: ribs	Turbo: air outlet

 

Landing gears	Commands	powerplant

Bottom ready to paint

Spar (gluing)

Damper flanges and landing gear blade.

Wings: Spar caps
Stabilator linkage parts and fittings.
Composites
Stablilator Positioning
Stabilator Spar	Other pic of Spar	Stabilator structure
Rudder floor done.	Stiffeners	Laminated stiffner of the Canopy done.
Yaw	Yaw	As of Nov. 4 2012

Details:

I made the decision to start with the fuselage (its frames). Initially I intended to begin with the empennage, but after the structure is made and before gluing the sking, mounting the brackets, hinges in particular, takes place on the fuselage. Everything is nested and, in the other hand, the empennage must be ready before coating the fuselage.... Starting with the fuselage frames is my choice, anyhow I had to start somewhere! Because the fuselage takes lots of room, I will continue with the vertical empennage, then the horizontal. At this point only, I go about the assembly of the fuselage. I'll leave the wings for the end…

• December 2010: I mailed the check to order the plans.
  It seems like an easy thing to do but… first this is symbolic, second this stand for “end of the doubts and thinking through” and last but not least it kicks off the adventure....
• December / January requests for quotes then I ordered the wood, foam, fiber glass, part of the epoxy etc.
• February 26, 2011: I waited Geoffroy’s (my son) visit to actually begin. Drawing of frame corner 1 ... the first one. Geoffroy drew it by hand, then I had the plan printed at scale 1 and I made templates.
  

  Ready for the first drawing	Hand drawing	C4 drawing using a template

  
  
• February 2011: Cutting frame corners.
  

  Jig saw cutting	Recticfication	Finishing up at the router table	Sanding

  All frame corners.

  
  
• March 2011: Cutting the firewall. Family problems had me to put the project aside: three weeks of interruption.
  
• Mid-April 2011: Here we go again! Cutting the frames skins.
• Early May: Skins of frames completed.
• May. Build the scale and made a sanding disk. Glued C1 and C2.
• June. Glued C3 and C4. C5 glued. See the fuselage page.
  
• July/september (August: vaccations...!) Started the vertical stabilizer. See the empennage page.
  
  
  
  October. Vertical Stabilizer: rib sanding and gluing the skin. See the empennage page.
  
  
  

  Gluing the right hand side skin.

  
  

  Skin glued.

• Gipsy Cheking the fire wall.
  
  
  
• November, Glued the skins and Airex of the firewall. See the fuselage page.
  
  

  Fire wall: gluing the Skin and internal foam (AIREX) .

  
  
• November 2011 - Février 2012 : structure gluing. See the fuselage page.
  
  

  Gluing the fuselage structure.

  Fuselage Structure Completed.

  
  
• February to march 2012: Glued the lower fuselage skins. See the fuselage page.
  
  

  Lower skins glued.

  
  
• March to May 2012: Made the back formers and glued the skins (C9 - Canopy). See the fuselage page.
  
  

  Formers glued
  Fuselage Skins glued.

  
  
• July 2012: Canopy laminated rim, floor stiffeers and rudder pedal beams See the fuselage page.
  

  Canopy laminated rim.
  Floor stiffeners.



• September 2012: Rudder pedal beams and wedges See the fuselage page, yaw See the empennage page.
  

  Rudder pedals floor (Beams, wedges, flooring...).
  Gluing the beams (and stiffeners)	Beams glued	Gluing the beams plywood sides
  Gluing : wedges for the pedals	Rudder Pedal bearing
  Yaw.
  Bottom Filler	Gluing: Bottom Filler	Gluing left Skin
  Left Skin Glued
• October 2012: finished the rudder pedal floor and the yaw. Glued the vertical stabilzer on the fuselage
  See the fuselage page and the empennage page.

  Yaw completed		Rudder floor

  
  
• November 2012 : Putting the vertical stabilizer and empennage together

  Monting the vertical stabilizer on the fuselage
  Gluing general view and...	... the leading egde	Fuselage with the vertical sabilizer

  
  
• December/January 2013: Stabilator.
  

  • Stabilator.
    Structure Gluing.	Leading Edge	Structure complete

  • February/April 2013: Ferrures and stabilator positioning.

    Stabilator fittinglis.
    Control Horn.	Hinges
    Control linkage parts.
    Stabilator Positioning.

  
  

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  Landing gears	Commands	powerplant