I thought I said I was done until the fuselage. Well, I have used this time waiting for the next kit to finish up some odds and ends. This time it was doing the fiberglass work by attaching the empennage fairings. I didn’t do this before because I was kind of intimidated by working with […]

This is the final section of the Empennage which is where I attach the fairings to the empennage pieces. Looking through the plans, some of it does not get completed until much later – after all the empennage parts are permanently attached to the airplane. I also had an impending delivery of the wing kit […]

Section 11 seemed like it was just marking time until the wing kit arrives. It basically is the step where you attach the empennage pieces (rudder, vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, and elevator) to the aft fuselage. It talks you through the entire attachment steps; however, I am not doing this permanently until much later. For […]

This seems to be a post that is actually taking longer to write than the parts shown below to assemble. At long last, I was about to put Section 10 to bed with the completion of the Aft Fuselage. After leaving off the previous, the next step was to cleco the aft deck to the […]

I am a little behind in these posts so I will try to pick up here where I left off about a month ago. The Bellcrank ribs were attached to the forward bulkhead (relative to the Aft Fuselage) with the other end being riveted to the larger side frame bulkhead. At this point it was […]

I was excited about this section because it seems that here is where real airplane parts start. Yeah I know tail feathers are real airplane parts but getting started on the fuselage seems like an airplane shape is about to take shape. But that didn’t last long because I was immediately faced with my favorite […]

Wow, finally done. I never expected this to take so many hours, and I look back, and I am not sure why it took so long. 67 out of 172 hours total so far was spent on both elevators. Not sure what I am looking at timewise with the Aft Fuselage. Perhaps just as much […]

After returning from Oshkosh, I was finally able to resume work on N124KB. The elevator continues to have many steps and details which seems to make progress very slow. But I am getting there… Most of these sections covered here involved riveting the skins to the ribs, attaching the ribs together, and then riveting the […]

Just a quick update before I take about 10 days off. I am headed to Oshkosh for the EAA AirVenture this weekend so it will be a while before I pound rivets again. This section was finishing up the spars before the skins were attached. First the Tip ribs had their skins attached, the rear […]

Since I last left you guys, it has been 2 weeks, and it doesn’t seem like I have done anything. However, adding up the hours since the last post, it was 25 hours of work. So something must have happened. The elevator has so many steps that it takes a while to get any sort […]