How Time Flys

It's been a year and a half since my last post.  Let me catch you up. We moved, bought a house, I'm almost done with my training at work and just in the last month I've been able to resume work on the Sonex.  So what took so long? My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. That's the bad news. After 8 months of chemo, surgery, recovery and radiation treatments, she is cancer free. It was a tough time for both of us, her's obvious, mine with stressful training on the job and extra workload at home with the kids. We had the best possible outcome and we are so thankful.

As for the Sonex, I've finished the rear spars, main spars and I'm working on the rib gussets now. The rear spars were quick and easy, the main spars were a different animal. It was over 300 holes per spar sometimes drilling through 4 layers. I drilled them up to size using 3 different drill sizes to make nice round holes. At the end of all that drilling was a lot of deburring and some countersinking. I won't go into all the details as to how the spars are constructed but the left is a mirror of the right in some places and is the opposite in others. The two spars overlap through the fuselage and are bolted together in 5 places. It can be complicated until you wrap your mind around it.  Here are some photos up to this point.

Be the way, I did finish the flaps before we left Georgia. All the work involved with moving prevented me from posting anything about it. They were easy and turned out perfect.