Building Sonex 982 Sierra X-ray

Bob Meyers' Unofficial Airplane Builders Log

Just a small post today. Got the material pulled and started on the bellcranks. 
 
Today's (50th Sonexlog) pictures
 

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I finished the root ribs yesterday. On to the aileron bellcranks. 
 
Here are yesterday's pictures 

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Still modifying ribs. Made the forward root ribs and the aft root ribs are started. 
 
pictures

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Lots of flying, four out of five days this week, including a small solo cross country today. 
 
Despite that, I have worked a little most every day. Plenty of deburring, cleaning, riveting and forming of small parts. Perfect fill in work. I'm going to start studying for the written next week, as well as trying to fly most of the week, so I will still be going slow. 
 
Here are some additional pictures

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Two days of modest work. Still working on ribs and gussets and still doing unneeded rib fittings to just 'see how it will look'. 
 
Looks good. 
 
Pictures

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I have flown a lot since the last post but I have still moved forward. 
 
I've scheduled myself for a lot of flight time and am going to make a big push to get to a check ride. I flew my 150nm solo cross country today and it was fun and challenging. 
 
There are a lot of little jobs before putting on the skins and I think they will make for great fill in work while I fly, so it will probably just be little bits at a time for awhile. 
 
Here is the latest batch of pictures 

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As I said in the last post, I did stop to do some shop cleanup. Along with flying, EAA meeting, trip out of town and Mother's day very little building time. 
 
I had that all behind me today however and it was back to the shop. 
 
Here are the pictures of activities since the last post. 

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After yesterdays post this is pretty small. 
 
Inspection and mating the spars was on tap for today, here are the pictures
 
Moving on to the ribs and attaching the wing skins. I will probably do some reorganizing of the shop at this point. Shelagh is back home tomorrow for the summer and I want to get some of the materials out of her room. 

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Lots going on after finishing all of the boring stuff. I didn't get to work long stretches because I took advantage of some nice weather and went flying Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday. 
 
But I kept at it and little be little I got to today and finished the remainder of the rivets (almost all the round head), including the hand set ones. 
 
So sit back and enjoy ten web pages containing 42 pictures

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It is hard work cleaning up the spar caps but they have all come out looking great. I finished up today after flying this morning. I'm scheduled to fly for the next two mornings as well so it may be limited progress the next few days. 
 
Just a one page post of pictures today. Not much to see. I will document the riveting steps better for this spar. 

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