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9/6/2005 Ordered fuselage kit   11/9/2005 Fuselage kit arrived 4.0
12/7/2005 Started building the jig 2.5 12/10/2005 More jig work 2.0
12/11/2005 More or less finished with the jig 3.0 12/13/2005 Finished inventorying. Started on firewall. 2.5
12/14/2005 Drilled and deburred holes in firewall 1.5 12/16/2005 Etched, Alodined and primed the firewall parts. 1.5
12/17/2005 Riveted on firewall parts 1.5 12/18/2005 Drilled rudder cable hole 1.0
12/19/2005 Made center section attachments 2.5 12/20/2005 Riveted center section attachments 1.5
12/21/2005 Misc center section tasks 3.0 12/26/2005 Made seat belt fairleads and new temporary spars 3.0
12/27/2005 Started deburring and fluting bulkhead parts 1.0 12/28/2005 Finished deburring and fluting. Etched and Alodined bulkead parts. 2.5
12/30/2005 Riveted two bulkheads 1.5 12/31/2005 Put together bulkhead F-811 2.5
1/2/2006 Riveted aft-most bulkhead started on sub-floor 1.0 1/3/2006 Drilled and beveled edges on rear spar attach 1.0
1/4/2006 Prepared and primed rear spar attach and lateral bulkhead. 1.5 1/5/2006 Bent, deburred, prep'ed and primed bulkhead gusset F-806FPP 2.0
1/6/2006 Made F-805D 1.0 1/7/2006 Made seat belt attach points 1.5
1/8/2006 Worked on inner ribs in sub-floor 3.5 1/12/2006 Drilled angle for mounting sub-floor to center section. 2.0
1/13/2006 Mounted the firewall to the jig. 2.0 1/14/2006 Finished sub-floor. Bent longerons. 6.0
1/15/2006 Lined up jig and longerons. 2.5 1/16/2006 Installed bulkheads in jig. 3.5
1/18/2006 Rivet tacked center section rib doublers 2.0 1/19/2006 Leveled the jig 2.0
1/21/2006 Made and installed seat belt brackets 1.5 2/3/2006 Drilled tail wheel mount. Primed longerons. 2.0
2/4/2006 Drilled inside front bottom skin 4.5 2/5/2006 Drilled front side skins. 4.0
2/7/2006 Deburred front skins. Fixed bad rivet in firewall. Riveted and bolted F-804D. 2.5 2/8/2006 Fixed alignment of lower longerons 1.0
2/9/2006 Set spar distances in fuselage 1.5 2/12/2006 Started drilling right center skin 1.5
2/13/2006 Finished bending and drilling left center skin 2.0 2/14/2006 No airplane building. Valentine's day.  
2/15/2006 Bent and drilled and drilled right center skin. Drilled F-805 and F-806 ribs. 3.0 2/16/2006 Drilled right rear skin 2.5
2/17/2006 Drilled left rear skin 2.0 2/19/2006 Made rear seat belt attach points 3.0
2/20/2006 Drilled bottom center and bottom rear skins 4.0 2/21/2006 Cut a notch for the tail spring in back bottom skin 2.0
2/22/2006 Drilled back bottom skin to the skeleton and other skins 2.5 2/23/2006 Fabricated landing gear box angle parts 2.5
2/24/2006 Prepared and primed landing gear box parts 2.0 2/25/2006 Built air compressor box 0
2/27/2006 Added fan to air compressor box 0 2/28/2006 Drilled aux longeron and started on landing gear box 2.0
3/1/2006 Prepared holes in front right F-802A for flush rivets. Then riveted same. 2.0 3/2/2006 Prepared and riveted angles to other F-802A and the two F-802Bs. 2.0
3/4/2006 Drilled both F-802A to the skins. More horsing around with the air compressor.   3/5/2006 Prepared and drilled bot F-802G to the bottom skin and F-802A. 1.5
3/6/2006 Started drilling right weldment to ldg gear box 1.0 3/7/2006 Finished drilling right weldment. Discovered I had ruined it. 1.5
3/8/2006 Drilled left WD-822 weldment. 2.0 3/10/2006 Finished working on left landing gear box 3.0
3/12/2006 Drilled right WD-822 weldment (again). 3.0 3/13/2006 Finished working on right landing gear box 3.5
3/16/2006 Countersunk longerons 1.0 3/17/2006 Dimpled and deburred rear skin 2.0
3/18/2006 Primed bottom rear skins. Riveted them into place. Dimpled and deburred left rear skin. 5.0 3/19/2006 Dimpled and deburred right rear skin. Cut vent hole. 2.5
3/20/2006 Primed rear side skins. Attached rear seat belt anchors. 2.5 3/21/2006 Christine and I riveted the right rear skin 2.5
3/23/2006 We riveted the left rear skin. I prepare then center area for the middle side skins. 5.0 3/25/2006 Prepared middle skins 1.5
3/26/2006 Riveted right middle skin 2.5 3/27/2006 Riveted left middle skin 2.5
3/28/2006 Replaced bad rivets. 1.5 3/29/2006 Prep'ed forward fuselage skeleton. Reflected on dimple directions on F-822 2.0
3/30/2006 Prep'ed F-822 3.5 4/1/2006 Riveted front bottom skin (F-822). Prep'ed bottom middle skins. 4.0
4/2/2006 Riveted bottom middle skins 5.5 4/3/2006 Prepared right front skin. Clecoed into place. 3.0
4/6/2006 Prepared left front skin 2.5 4/7/2006 Riveted right front skin. 2.5
4/8/2006 Riveted left front skin 3.0 4/9/2006 Tipped the canoe! 3.0
           

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