Canard Installation
Up Alignment Pins Aligning Canard Fit to Fuselage

 

 

Overall totals for Chapter 12

Start Latest Hours Sessions

4/30/2006

11/22/2006

32

18

 
Detail of Sessions Worked
Date Start Finish Hours Work Performed

11/22/2006

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

1

Re-floxed the altered AN4 bolts into the front of the longerons and re-mounted the canard to align same

11/22/2006

4:10 PM

4:39 PM

0.5

Re-drilled holes for lift tab pins in longerons, sanded fuselage top for proper CZNC-12 clearance

11/21/2006

7:06 PM

8:25 PM

1.3

Drilled repaired lift tab for its bushing, cleaned the bushings and pins and floxed the bushings into the lift tabs

11/11/2006

2:53 PM

4:06 PM

1.2

Cleaned out the broken foam from the LH lift tab, made a new one and microed it in

11/4/2006

8:10 AM

9:01 AM

0.9

Finished removing canard from fuselage - damaged one lift tab, NC-2 inserts came out of the lift tabs and the modified AN-3 bolts came out of the longerons

11/3/2006

3:37 PM

4:42 PM

1.1

worked to remove canard from fuselage

10/18/2006

6:38 PM

8:22 PM

1.7

Trimmed the elevator inboard ends, fitted canard and floxed in the alignment pins

9/30/2006

9:20 AM

12:31 PM

3.2

Trimmed the fuselage sides to fit the elevator offset tube, added the 1 ply BID layup to the top of the fuselage "edges" when that was complete

9/27/2006

6:26 PM

7:44 PM

1.3

Trimmed the alignment tabs, drilled them for the CN2 bushings and installed same. Drilled F22 and the lift tab assembly to 1/4" and installed bolts

9/24/2006

9:50 AM

11:31 AM

1.7

Cut notches then did the 4 ply BID layup on the back of the canard top lift tabs

9/19/2006

4:36 PM

5:57 PM

1.4

Epoxied the lift tab foam onto the canard then added the 5 ply BID layup

9/13/2006

4:32 PM

6:08 PM

1.6

Started making tabs for the top of the canard

9/12/2006

5:04 PM

5:44 PM

0.7

Removed canard from fuselage and trimmed flox pads

9/10/2006

12:44 PM

4:44 PM

4

Carved and sanded and filed until the canard was level, perpendicular, etc. then made flox pads for the lift tabs on F22

9/10/2006

10:05 AM

12:33 PM

2.5

Carved F22 and the fuselage sides to get the canard level, perpendicular and at the right incidence

9/9/2006

1:35 PM

4:54 PM

3.3

Final trimmed around lift tabs, placed canard on fuselage and started leveling and measuring

9/9/2006

10:33 AM

12:22 PM

1.8

Moved fuselage onto jig table and started leveling

4/30/2006

3:10 PM

6:01 PM

2.9

Removed fuselage from rotisserie and made adjustable mounts for installing canard; drilled # 10 holes for alignment pins

Up Alignment Pins Aligning Canard Fit to Fuselage

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