Tasklist

The manual that I’m working from is arranged by topic (wings, landing gear, fuel system, etc.). The plane is not built by starting a page one and working through the manual sequentially. There is a  “flow chart” that lists the tasks to be performed in the order they are supposed to be done in.

So to get an idea of what I’m doing, here it is. Some of the tasks are missing because they don’t apply. For example, there’s a fixed landing gear version which has tasks that I don’t do. I’ve removed those steps. So if you notice some missing numbers, that’s why. If it’s red, it’s done!

   1.      Read chapter one of your manual and review the construction DVD’s
   2.      Cut out Doghouse
   3.      Cut out and install premolded NACA scoops
   4.      Install Overhead plenum NACA (do not install plenum until flipping airplane)
   5.      Fit keel in airplane and then remove to install control system
   6.      Install wood hardpoints for control system in keel
   7.      Cut out and layup inspection covers in keel
   8.      Install nut plates to hold inspection covers
  12.      Cut out nose gear door hinges
  13.      Install top Triax pad on firewall for Lycoming engine mount or the lower pads for a continental engine
  14.      Complete fiberglass portion of nose gear door installation
  15.      Install Heater flapper valve and aluminum outlet tubes in oil cooler exit
  16.      Cut out oil cooer inlet and outlet ducts
  17.      Install front oil cooler ducts
  18.      Install rear aileron control bracket to keel rear section
  19.      Install aileron torque tube and control stick in keel
  20.      Mid bearing support installed in keel
  21.      Install main gear and nose gear cylinder
  22.      Install AN fittings into main and nose gear cylinders (tape over the ends)
  23.      Install flexible hydraulic lines between nose and main gear cylinders
24.      Fit and install battery tray
25.      Fit and install Landing Light Assembly (not going to have a landing light in the nose)
  26.      Structural Adhesive front of keel in place
  27.      Install front keel stiffening layups
  29.      Install nose gear bushing plates
  30.      Glass edges of canard cutout to seal it
  31.      Fit and fair in nose access cover
  32.      Install nose gear gas spring and shock assembly
  33.      Install nose gear door cylinder and assembly
34.      Install RG hydraulic power pack
35.      Install MG pulley and cable assembly
  36.      Install rudder pedals
  37.      Fit instrument panel into airplane ( Once the panel has been fitted it can have the instrument holes cut out be finished and sent out to be wired.)
  38.      Install seat hardpoints
  39.      Use Velocipoxy and micro to fair in back of windows
  40.      Construct sump tank
  41.      Glass side of canard bulkhead opposite the flange
  42.      Install sequence valve assembly
43.      Install Dump Valve
  44.      Install nose gear guides
45.      Install hydraulic power pack
46.      Install hard lines for RG system
  47.      Install Center Spar
  48.      Install all Triax reinforcements on the forward side of the firewall between the center spar and the gear bulkhead.
  51.      Place airplane on jacks and remove main gear
  52.      Cut out fuselage to allow main gear retract and complete transverse bulkhead installation
  53.      Install main gear bushings
  54.      Triax over main gear bushings
  55.      Permanently install steel bushings in gear legs and make aluminum spacers
  56.      Install straws on MG for brake lines
  57.      Install canard attachment reinforcements (triax)
  58.      Install Canard bushings
  59.      Complete all canard Triax reinforcements
  60.      Install hinges on elevators
  61.      Install hinge arms in canard
  62.      Attach canard tips
  63.      Install concentric torque tube
  64.      Install counterweights
  65.      Check balance of elevators
  66.      Install elevator pitch trim actuator
  67.      Install main gear
  68.      Install main wings prep for strake install
  69.      Temporarily install doors (hinges do not have to be completed yet)
  70.      Fit lower strake
  71.      Cut out baggage access opening
  72.      Install lower strake bottom
  73.      Fit top strake
  74.      After bottom strake is attached permanently you can remove wings to provide more space
  75.      Glass dyvinicel sheet to make fuel tank baffles
  76.      Cut out opening for gear and wheel well
  77.      Fit gear and wheel well
  78.      Cut out baffles a little larger than templates
  79.      Glass top flange on wheel well
  80.      Fit baffle bottoms to bottom strake
  81.      Fit baffle tops to top strake
  82.      Reposition all baffles in bottom strake and tack in place
  83.      Glass bulkheads and baffles to lower strake
  84.      Install hardpoint for fuel vent and main fuel line
  85.      install sight tubes
  86.      Install fuel caps in strake top
  87.      Plug fuel lines and remove senders and coat tank to seal with 2 coats of Jeffco or EZ-poxy
  88.      Coat strake top with Jeffco or EZ-poxy in fuel tank area
  89.      Cut wing access bolt hole
  90.      Practice fuel strake top installation with partner
  91.      Install strake top
  92.      Cut wing from strake
  93.      Remove wings
  94.      Cut leading edge from strake that will go on the door (or is already attached to the door)
  95.      Install door and glass leading edge of strake to it
  96.      Install outboard end stake reinforcement
  97.      Finish glassing on exterior of fuel tank bottom seams and back of spar to strake top and bottom
  98.      Pressure check each main fuel tank
  99.      Complete finish work between strake top and fuselage and leading edge of strake
 100.      Reinstall wings
 101.      Complete finish work between strake top and wing (recut line between wing and strake)
 102.      Remove wings
 103.      Flip airplane
 104.      Finish glassing on exterior of fuel tank top seams
 105.      Complete finish work between strake bottom and wing (recut line between wing and strake)
 106.      Complete glass work between strake top and inside of baggage well
 107.      Install overhead fresh air plenum
 108.      Fit main gear doors and install attach brackets onto gear legs
 109.      Fill sand and prep gear legs for primer (RG’s may be easier to remove legs from plane for this)
 110.      Complete all finish work on bottom of airplane including all bolts that protrude through the floor and around the oil cooler exit.
 111.      When completed with all bottom finish work the bottom of the airplane can be primed to prep it for paint
 112.      Remove wings
 113.      Flip airplane back onto it’s gear
 114.      Install sump tank
115.      Install fuel plumbing between main tanks and sump tank and sump tank and firewall fitting (RG’s make sure you cycle your gear to make sure your gear clears your fuel lines)
 116.      Install Fiberfrax and stainless steel on firewall
117.      Install oil lines to forward oil cooler ( make sure to cover them at the firewall until the flexible oil lines are installed)
118.      Install rudder cable nylaflow in airplane from pedals to the firewall
 119.      Bond in rear keel (whale tail) section and install rear aileron bellcrank in keel
120.      Install Aileron push/pull cables through firewall
 121.      Install Aileron torque tube
122.      Install Aileron bellcrank and bearing brackets in wing root
123.      Install Rudder hinges
 124.      Install rudder horn
 125.      Install rudder return spring
 126.      Install Aileron hinges
127.      Install rudder cable in airplane and wing nylaflow
128.      Install rudder pulley and cable adjuster between firewall and wing root
 129.      Install winglet bottom
 130.      Fit top and bottom cowling and flange
 131.      Install Door hinges
 132.      Install secondary lock in door
 133.      Install key lock
134.      Fit door trim panels
135.      Install door gas springs
136.      Assemble seat backs to bases with seat hinges
137.      Install seat belt hardpoints
 138.      Remove wings
 139.      You will now progress into engine installation. Before installing the engine it is easier to finish as much component installation onto the firewall as you can.
 140.      Fit fiberfrax and stainless to firewall and install
141.      Install front oil cooler lines and bracket on firewall
142.      Install secondary oil cooler
143.      Install electric fuel pump
144.      Plumb aluminum lines between firewall bulkhead fitting and fuel pump
145.      If using a prewired harness you can begin routing the main harness and installing the terminal blocks on the firewall and in the rear of the airplane Harness instruction
146.      Mount the engine mount on the engine
 147.      Mount the engine on the firewall
148.      Fabricate oil access door
149.      install oil and fuel line plumbing from the airframe to the engine
150.      Install engine senders on firewall and wire
151.      Plumb flexible lines between engine and senders
 152.      Jack airplane up and fit brakes to gear legs
154.      Check for toe in and camber. Shim axle to correct
158.      Installed prewired panel
159.      Connect panel wiring to premade harness Harness instruction
160.      Install Throttle , Mixture and Prop control cables
 161.      Install pitot tube
 162.      Install Static port
163.      Install vacuum system and static system
164.      Install engine cooling plenum and runners to NACA scoops
165.      Cut exhaust exit in cowling
166.      Trim exhaust tubes and permanently install on engine
167.      Install prop as per manufacturers recommendations and trim or modify rear cowling as necessary to fair in
168.      Install canard
169.      complete control stick to concentric torque tube installation