- 00 Task List
- 00 Shop Prep
- 00 The trip down to Florida
- 00 Preparing to leave for the first trip
- 00 Getting started
- 00 First trip preparations
- 00 Inventory
- 00 First Trip Prep
- 00 First Trip Prep
- 00 Purchase
- 00 Factory visit
- 00 The Velocity is coming home!
- 00 Building the shop (Part II)
- 00 Moving
- 00 The trip home
- 00 Building the shop (Part I)
- 00 Flow chart – Year end
- 00 – Flow chart
- 00 Heading to Mecca
- 00 Plane gone!
- 00 Registration
- 00 Airplane Arrives
- 00 Shop Prep
- 00 Airplane returns
- 00 Flipping the Fuselage
- 00 Moving to Hangar 18
- 00 Flipping the plane
- 00 Sebastian Pre-Departure
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 pads on firewall for 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 (no 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
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. ✔︎ Triax reinforcements 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, complete transverse bulkhead
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. 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. Seal fuel tank 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
95. Install door and glass leading edge of strake to it
96. Install outboard end stake reinforcement
97. Finish glassing fuel tank bottom seams-back of spar-strake top and bottom
98. Pressure check each main fuel tank
99. Complete finish work between strake top and fuselage
100. Reinstall wings
101. Complete finish work between strake top and wing
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
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
110. Complete all finish work on bottom of airplane.
111. Prime and prep for paint
112. Remove wings
113. Flip airplane back onto it’s gear
114. Install sump tank
115. Install fuel plumbing between main tanks-sump tank-firewall fitting
116. Install Fiberfrax and stainless steel on firewall
117. Install oil lines to forward oil cooler
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. Engine installation.
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. Install wiring
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 Pitot/Static system tubing
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 and trim or modify rear cowling as necessary to fair in
168. Install canard
169. Complete control stick to concentric torque tube installation