Fuselage Sides
Up Jigs & Longerons Forms & Contour Prep Contour Insides Inside Layup Install Longerons Completion

 
Overall totals for Chapter 5
Start Finish Hours Sessions

6/23/2001

12/18/2001

103.1

69

 

Detail of Sessions Worked
Date Start Finish Hours Work Performed

12/18/2001

3:00 PM

4:15 PM

1.2

Sanded extra glass, flox, foam off fuselages sides and longerons

12/16/2001

4:20 PM

4:40 PM

0.3

Trimmed F-22 doubler

11/27/2001

7:30 PM

10:10 PM

2.7

Cut the fuselage sides to length. Cut out the spare cutouts, sanded the sides more and mocked up F-22 for fitting

11/27/2001

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

0.5

Sanded extra glass, micro etc. off of the fuselage sides/longerons

10/29/2001

7:10 PM

8:45 PM

1.6

Sanded last layup edges smooth, cut extra channel, foam and layup from the aft edges and trimmed, popped sides off of jigs and cleaned lumps of foam off of the jigs

10/28/2001

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

0.5

Knife trimmed

10/28/2001

1:00 PM

2:40 PM

1.7

Laid up 6 layers of BID over same and peel plied

10/28/2001

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

1.5

Sanded foam smooth second side

10/28/2001

7:15 AM

7:45 AM

0.5

Sanded foam smooth one side

10/27/2001

9:45 AM

11:10 AM

1.4

Microed in the foam and weighted down same

10/27/2001

8:35 AM

9:05 AM

0.5

Fitted remaining foam over and around the electrical channels and LWX and LWY

10/26/2001

6:50 PM

8:30 PM

1.7

Fitted and glued on electrical channel covers, glued toothpicks into holes, cut and fit clark foam for 1 side

10/26/2001

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

1

Trimmed and sanded from the previous step, sanded off extra flox in the electrical channel

10/25/2001

6:50 PM

8:30 PM

1.7

Floxed on stringers and added fiberglass tapes

10/25/2001

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

0.5

Prepared for stringer layup, set up weights and for fiberglass tape

10/23/2001

6:30 PM

8:00 PM

1.5

Drilled hole, nailed and dry mounted LWX and LWY both sides

10/23/2001

5:15 PM

5:45 PM

0.5

Parted electrical channel covers from their molds and trimmed

10/22/2001

6:45 PM

7:30 PM

0.8

Laminated electrical channels and covers

10/22/2001

5:05 PM

5:55 PM

0.8

Microed electrical channels, cut glass for those and for the covers

10/21/2001

6:30 PM

7:00 PM

0.5

Taped plugs to the workbench

10/21/2001

4:05 PM

5:35 PM

1.5

Cut LWX and LWY, sanded to shape, made foam plugs for the electrical channel cover

10/21/2001

6:50 AM

7:50 AM

1

Mocked up and cut out LWX and LWY, removed clamps and trimmed doublers of excess flox

10/20/2001

4:30 PM

5:15 PM

0.8

Cut out the electrical channels

10/20/2001

9:50 AM

12:00 PM

2.2

Manufactured the triangular longeron doublers, test fitted and floxed on, laid out spar cutout, sanded aft edge of fuselage sides, started on LWX and LWY

10/13/2001

10:50 AM

1:00 PM

2.2

Glued the second triangular longeron and cut the triangular longeron doublers

10/8/2001

3:30 PM

4:15 PM

0.8

Measured and prepared the second side for the triangular longeron, cut slices into longeron

10/6/2001

4:00 PM

6:25 PM

2.4

Prepared for and glued on the triangular longeron

10/6/2001

9:30 AM

12:45 PM

3.2

Prepared for and did the second 4 layer UNI layup

10/4/2001

6:40 PM

8:00 PM

1.3

Sanded glass edge on 4 layer UNI layup one side, measured for triangular longerons

9/27/2001

7:00 PM

7:55 PM

0.9

Cut spacers for laminating triangular stock and fitted same

9/27/2001

5:05 PM

6:05 PM

1

Sanded toothpicks off smooth and sanded saw cuts I filled with 5 min

9/25/2001

6:50 PM

8:30 PM

1.7

Rough trimmed that layup, cut glass for the other side and glued toothpicks into holes

9/23/2001

3:30 PM

5:45 PM

2.2

Re-did the 4 layer UNI layup on the first side

9/17/2001

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

1

Sanded rounded edge on longerons and prepared for re-do of the first layup

9/9/2001

1:30 PM

6:00 PM

4.5

Heat delaminated the rest of same and sanded smooth

9/8/2001

10:30 AM

12:30 PM

2

De-laminated with a heat gun about half of the same

8/19/2001

1:30 PM

7:30 PM

6

Laminated one longeron with 4 layers of UNI

8/18/2001

4:05 PM

5:15 PM

1.2

Installed longerons, peel plied, clamped and weighted

8/18/2001

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

0.2

Scissor trimmed same

8/18/2001

9:15 AM

1:20 PM

4.1

Jeff and I did the 2 layers of UNI layup on the inside of both fuselage sides

8/13/2001

4:50 PM

6:05 PM

1.2

Did same for LH side

8/12/2001

3:15 PM

5:15 PM

2

Microed contoured foam onto the inside of the RH side

8/12/2001

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

3.5

Made depressions for fuel sight gauges

8/10/2001

8:10 PM

9:55 PM

1.8

Laid out and routed rectangle for fuel sight gauge LH side

8/9/2001

7:15 PM

9:05 PM

1.8

Glued all cut foam together and sanded joints and curves

8/8/2001

7:30 PM

8:30 PM

1

Did same for LH side

8/2/2001

7:10 PM

8:40 PM

1.5

Cut the far aft contour piece out and sanded RH side

8/2/2001

5:35 PM

6:00 PM

0.4

Cut foam for the far aft inside contour pieces and laid out the cutouts on them

7/30/2001

8:20 PM

9:35 PM

1.2

Cut foam for the inside contours of the fuselage sides

7/29/2001

12:00 PM

2:20 PM

2.3

Cut out and sanded the flight control depressions

7/29/2001

7:30 AM

9:55 AM

2.4

Made jigs for flight control depressions and practiced routing a piece of scrap

7/21/2001

1:15 PM

4:05 PM

2.8

Cut 3/8" PVC foam to side and glued together. Trimmed, sanded and vacuumed both sides

7/19/2001

7:35 PM

9:10 PM

1.6

Cut masonite ends to size and nailed to jigs

7/19/2001

5:30 PM

5:45 PM

0.2

Glued extensions on masonite

7/17/2001

7:50 PM

9:15 PM

1.4

Cut out masonite for fuselage sides

7/14/2001

2:30 PM

6:15 PM

3.8

Cut out 2 more FJA templates, laid out then glued to table all FJ formers

7/6/2001

7:15 PM

8:25 PM

1.2

Pulled the second longeron off the jigs, pulled nails, removed flox bumps from both longerons

7/5/2001

8:00 PM

9:10 PM

1.2

Glued up doublers for the second longeron

7/4/2001

10:20 AM

11:30 AM

1.2

Glued up doublers on one longeron

7/4/2001

9:30 AM

10:10 AM

0.7

Test mounted doublers and cut slots in them to allow bending

7/4/2001

8:10 AM

9:05 AM

0.9

Marked and cut spruce doublers for longerons

6/26/2001

6:15 PM

6:45 PM

0.5

Epoxied together the second longeron and clamped it to the jigs

6/26/2001

4:50 PM

5:30 PM

0.7

Laid out and taped jigs for the other longeron

6/25/2001

6:10 AM

6:20 AM

0.2

Separated longeron from jigs

6/24/2001

10:10 AM

11:00 AM

0.8

Vacuumed and laid up the longerons on the jigs and table, used extra fiberglass on the temporary firewall

6/24/2001

7:45 AM

9:10 AM

1.4

Finished jigging and taping and test clamping

6/23/2001

8:15 PM

9:50 PM

1.6

Put down plastic wrap and box tape, opened spruce packaging, drilled holes in the jigs and laid the whole thing out on the table

6/23/2001

3:15 PM

4:10 PM

0.9

Sanded same and prepped the layout on the table

6/23/2001

10:45 AM

12:05 PM

1.3

Laid out and cut out the jigs for the fuselage longerons

Up Jigs & Longerons Forms & Contour Prep Contour Insides Inside Layup Install Longerons Completion

Copyright © 2001-2011 Jim Springer - All Rights Reserved