How to use this blog
The most current post is displayed on this opening page. To access the older posts, click on the "Blog Archive" on the right hand side. The drop down menu is arranged by the month and lists the posts, by title and by date posted, in reverse chronological order.
I will arrange the hypertext links to other websites I find interesting better some day, but they are at the bottom.
If you navigate to my first post, there is a link to my luthiery pages. I miss working with wood. Aluminum is nice, but it's boring. Give me a highly figured maple any day!
Welcome. I am learning two things these days. How to build an airplane (that's pretty straightforward) and how to create a blog (tougher). I will try to get the design esthetic better on this blog, but for now, bear with me. In these first photos, I am documenting the work that took place at the "Introduction to the Empennage" class, taught by Wally Anderson at Synergy Air in Eugene. I took the almost completed empennage home, and while waiting for the wing kit to arrive, started doing the fairings on the stabilizers, the rudder and the elevators, as well as building the wing cradle and various other jigs needed for the next phase. I have completed the conversion of my garage from a woodworkers haven ("Maplewoods Luthiery") to an airplane factory.
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| Raw airplane |
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| My son, Doug, driving rivets with our instructor |
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| First work since "graduation". Clecoing fairings |
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| "Speed mod" an idea stolen from Ron Duren's website |
This site is under construction. I intend to compile my luthiery and Vans RV blogs here. In the meantime here is a link to my old site:
http://web.mac.com/suepol
