5 hours
Alright well life and work got busy, so after over a year
of neglecting my project I'm back at it. On the plus side, after saving
my pennies during a fun and exciting summer job in Afghanistan I was
able to order the rest of my airframe kit!
The timing actually worked out pretty well, since Sonex
recently released their B-models and they also put on a fall sale right
when I was looking to order. So I saved a bunch of money and got myself a
B-model, which didn't exist when I started.
I'm now officially building Waiex-B #21!
The kit arrived this afternoon which gave me an excuse to
ditch work early and help the guy unload it into my garage. It came in
four boxes on a 4'x10' pallet, plus a long crate which contains the
assembled wing spars. We took all the boxes off the pallet and just
carried each of them plus the pallet into the garage, since I don't have
a forklift. It was no problem between me and the delivery guy, anyway.
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All the boxes in the garage |
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Wing spars and the leading edge skins |
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Fuel tank and wing ribs, which were buried in one of the big boxes. |
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The contents of the other long box |
Then I spent the afternoon and evening moving everything
into my basement shop and inventorying all the parts. I got almost all the
parts moved downstairs, but I'll have to take the long parts around the
backyard since they won't fit through the house. I didn't feel like
doing that today though since it was raining.
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Some of the stuff moved downstairs |
BUT, after several hours I have gone through all the parts that I moved inside, which is almost all of them.
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Taking inventory! |
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Parts |
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One of the changes that Sonex did with the B-model was add a lot of pretty cool billet aluminum parts. These will form the canopy frame (the old version used tubing and took a lot of messing around to make the canopy fit). |
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The best and strongest type of rivets. |
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Just a few rivets included. |
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The pretty adorable landing gear. The only extra-cost option that I've bought so far is the 6" machined tailwheel, and it actually looks pretty nice! |