TRACKING INFORMATION
CHAPTER 1
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STRAIGHT TO LAST SITUATION - RECHT NAAR DE LAATSTE WERKZAAMHEDEN
CHAPTER 1
From August 25, 2005 to November 14, 2005
CHAPTER 2
From November 14, 2005 to January 14, 2006
CHAPTER 3
From January 14, 2006 to April 10, 2006
CHAPTER 4
From April 10, 2006 to June 24, 2006
CHAPTER 5
From June 24, 2006 to November 25, 2006
CHAPTER 6
From August 19, 2006 to March 10, 2007
CHAPTER 7
From March 11, 2007 to August 1, 2007
CHAPTER 8
From August 1, 2007 to November 11, 2007
CHAPTER 9
From November 11, 2007 to April 10, 2008
CHAPTER 10
From April 19, 2008 to ...
JADE AIR ENGINE MANUFACTURING
From January 14, 2007 to January 19, 2007
| Fuselage Kit |
| Finishing Kit |
2. Tracking information and valuable shipping info.
Interesting for colleagues builders is the information hereunder. You can see the dimensions, weights and times to ship this wing section to its destination. And, transit and handling times in between...
These were my shipment histories. The shipment came by Bax Global...
TRACKING INFORMATION
| Tracking Number: | 047239220 |
| Shipment Information | |
| Status: | Arrived |
| Signature: | |
| Service Level: | Prime |
| Shipped Date: | 04-Aug-2005 |
| Origin: | Aurora, OR, US |
| Destination: | Belgium Be 2370, BE |
| Package Information | |
| Pieces: | 1 |
| Weight: | 147.0 K ** |
| Volume Weight: | 165.5 K |
| References | |
|---|---|
| Description | Number |
| SHIPPER'S REFERENCE | 71881 |
| CUSTOMER REFERENCE NUMBER | 71881 |
| XTN NUMBER FOR AES-CUSTOMS | 04723922002989713 |
| Shipment History | |||||
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| Date | Time | Pieces | Activity | Location | Remarks |
| 24-Aug-2005 | 1 | Deliverd | Oud-Turnhout, BE | Deliverd in my workshop | |
| 11-Aug-2005 | 1143 | 1 | Arrived | Brussels, BE | |
| 10-Aug-2005 | 1745 | 1 | Departed | Atlanta, GA, US | DL 0124 TO BRU |
| 09-Aug-2005 | 1500 | 1 | Departed | Chicago O'hare, IL, US | TRK 0049 TO ATL |
| 09-Aug-2005 | 1013 | 1 | Scanned | Chicago/O'hare Airport, IL, US | |
| 09-Aug-2005 | 0847 | 1 | In Transit From | Chicago O'hare, IL, US | DL 45161406 FLT TRK0049/09 ETA BRU 0835/11 |
| 07-Aug-2005 | 1405 | 1 | Arrived | Chicago/O'hare Airport, IL, US | |
| 05-Aug-2005 | 2000 | 1 | Departed | Portland, OR, US | |
| 05-Aug-2005 | 1823 | 1 | Scanned | Portland, OR, US | |
| 05-Aug-2005 | 1822 | 1 | Scanned | Portland, OR, US | |
| 04-Aug-2005 | 1543 | 1 | Shipment Labeled | Portland, OR, US | |
| 04-Aug-2005 | 1615 | 1 | Received | Portland, OR, US | |
3. Building Log for the fuselage...
Up to the third phase of my project. Again I will provide you with the latest pictures of my progress. I have to finish some details on my wing and then I start working on my fuselage. I'm really looking forward to this phase. In a couple of weeks you will see the progress on this fuselage...
| Thursday, August 25th 2005 | Delivery and inventory of the received fuselage kit |
| At two o'clock in the afternoon Bax Global arrived with the fuselage kit. With some help of Gerry and me, we took the huge box out of the truck... | |
| The box stood in the workshop for about 4 hours waiting to be opened. We were still going on with the wiring of the wings... Although it was very tough looking to this "surprise-box", we managed it to leave it for what is was until we finished our planned "to-do's"... | |
| And then, yesssss, the big moment. We unpacked the box and started to inventorise the content... | |
| Again it was surprising to see the way Van's packed all the parts. But, looking at the chaotic mountain of paper, it seems to us that paper is still a cheap product in the US while it becomes to be gold here in Europe... | |
| When I overlook all these different parts, again I have the feeling that inventorising the kit will take a day to be done... | |
| Nevertheless, we started together to stock all the unpacked parts after marking them on the picklists. | |
| For the first time I don't have good room to put these large skins away in a good way. So, I put them in a free place into the shop. Waiting to be finished into a real fuselage... | |
| 8 pages filled with different parts. A huge job to check them all. Probably tomorrow I continue doing this job... (Maybe with the help of Elvira and Said??) | |
| Time spent for this: | 3 hours ... |
| Friday, August 25th, 2005 | Continue inventorizing kit |
| I continued inventorizing the delivered fuselage kit in the afternoon. Ronny joined me to help. Al the bags were controlled and are ready to organize in boxes with the right part numbers... | |
| As we checked we discovered a wrong partnumber. The picklist mentioned a part F-7103B-L and F-7103B-R. We found two F7103B-R's... I will contact VAN's for this little mistake... |
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| And after 10 hours (both times together) everything was put in place and is now waiting for construction... | |
| Time spent for this: | 10 hours ... |
| Evenings during week | Continue inventorizing kit (Bags in boxes) |
| Unbelievable to see all these bags together. Nuts, Bolts, washers, rivets, nutplates etc... A big mass of hardware. I decided to buy some new organizers (boxes) to put this stuff in. In a clear and easy-to-find manner. Some impressions of the result of one week sorting and labeling... | |
| All 426 rivets, some blind rivets and some connectors... | |
| All 470 rivets and the remaining blind rivets... | |
| Bolts, | |
| ... and some more bolts... | |
| a collection of washers and nuts, | |
| ... some screws and grommets and misc stuff | |
| and last but not least, some electricity hardware... | |
| Time spent for this: | 12 hours ... |
| Saturday, September 3rd, 2005 | First action on the Firewall (Playing around) |
| Just for fun some clecoeplaying. Took only some minutes... | |
| Time spent for this: | Some joyful minutes... Not worth counting. |
| Thursday, September 8th, 2005 | Black day, I lost my very best friend... |
| We went to Sanicole and, as usual, Said our dog accompanied us. Afraid as she was from thunder and hard noises, she suddenly left the clubhouse out of our attention. As the neighbourhood of Sanicole is a military exercise place, she probably panicked from the shooting exercices and started to run. A car hit her and she passed away immediately. Some minutes later we found her dead about 50 meters from Sanicole.
Her loss is terrible... Only people who had a dog like her can understand what this means. I'm sure I will never find another animal like her. Friendly for everybody, always happy and alert to welcome us. Always happy to accompany me when I went to the shop to build on my project. She was my building partner number one... I will miss her enormously. Elvira will miss her extremely. Joeri and Dimitri will miss her. Sanicole will miss her... Dedicated to her most friendly and loyal existence, this wonderful picture that reflects her unreplaceable caracter... |
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| Saturday, September 10th, 2005 | Continued on firewall |
| In the morning I continued working on my left wingtip. Wiring and assmbling the connectors to make it removable. In the afternoon Ronny joined me and we started clecoeing the firewall. All described parts that had to be fabricated by ourselves were done.
To be hounest, the loss of Said is still very hard and reflects the way we worked today. Very slowly and continuously looking around for my friend. This is and remains really hard... |
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| I started making the two F-601J angles. Thank God I have a band saw to clear this job. Next thing I did was fabricating the F-601Z aux Fuel pump Firewall doubler, | |
| ... the two F-601P Spacers and the F-601 TD which is specifically for the tail dragger version of this RV. | |
| So, ready for the next step. Drilling, deburring and preparing all parts to be riveted... But that's for the next workshop session... | |
| Time spent for this: | 4 hours ... |
| Sunday, September 18th, 2005 | Continue preparing Firewall |
| Due to the yearly rally I organise at Sanicole, I couldn't work yesterday. So, I changed the order and worked today. As announced last week I plan to prepare the different parts for the final assembling of the firewall. First I backdrilled the two F-601-J angles in place. | |
| And then I finished and drilled the F-601Z Aux Fuel pump Firewall doubler as you can see on this picture... | |
| And the F-601TD because I choose the Taildragger version of this RV-7. | |
| The last part to be backdrilled using the F-601A-2 Firewall bulkhead as drill guide, is this Firewall Excess stiffener F-601E-1. | |
| All parts are fabricated and drilled and clecoed in place... | |
| So, ready to start the countersinking of all parts that come in contact with the firewall. The firewall itself will be dimpled from the other side... | |
| I used the Boelube (sold by Vans) as a lubricant necessary for the drilling of the firewall. And then, ready for the deburring of all the drilled holes... | |
| I stopped around 7 PM. All parts finished, firewall de burred and everything ready to be primed and riveted together... | |
| Time spent for this: | 6 hours ... |
| Saturday, September 24th, 2005 | Priming firewall parts and start bulkheads |
| I started dimpling the firewall as mentioned in the instructions. Before that, I primed all parts. While drying I finished all dimpling... | |
| A closer view. Look out for the two different hole sizes. Some need 426 3-.. rivets and some 426 4-.. | |
| The firewall excess was also dimpled. | |
| One and a half hour later, all parts were ready to be put in place. But not for riveting yet. That will be something for next week... | |
| I had some time left and started studying the centersection parts. | |
| Time spent for this: | 3 hours ... |
| Saturday, October 1st , 2005 | Riveting Firewall and continue bulkheads |
| Before Ronny arrived, I the morning I finished preparing the two F-633 control mounts. | |
| And as soon Ronny was there, we started riveting the firewall assembly together. This took more time than we thought before. But, everything fits nicely together... | |
| We put all the rivets in place and used riveting tape. Then, Ronny bucked while I used the rivetgun to to the job... | |
| After a while we reached this status. All rivets nicely in place... | |
| ... a closer view... | |
| Then started the center section with clamping and finishing the two vertical center section bars... We als did the countersinking as described.. | |
| After that, we tried the sticks... | |
| And to finish this project day, we countersunk all the platenut holes and put the platenuts in place... | |
| Time spent for this: | 16 hours ... |
| Thursday, October 13nd , 2005 | Belgium RVAtors to David's Project |
| Since the beginning of our projects, the Belgian RVAtors sometimes organize a lollow-up meeting to keep in touch with each progress. Today the appointment was at David De Ridder's workshop. David and Christine (see picture) welcomed the group. Pretty nice detail, David and Christine are now in progress on three major projects... 1. The RV-8 (subject of the meeting) 2. Christine is working on a small "De Ridder" which is expected to be presented somewhere in the beginning of 2006 3. They expect to start building their new house in a couple of months. We wish them all the joy they can have in each of these projects... |
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| The French part of Belgium... Bernard Van de Sijpe with a sharp view on David's progress... | |
| Peter Dobbeleir (Building RV7 A QB together witn Theo Célis) and Jef Vervoort (building RV9 A) together inspecting the Pitot-bracket on David's wing... | |
| ... and then the necessary discussions and nice-to-knows. First on the left, Theo Célis. First on the right, Elvira (sponsor/fan/Qualitymanager of my own project...). Hugo Van Ruyskensvelde, another RV7-builder couldn't jolin us today due to professional activities... | |
| And then of course a closer view to David's perfectly built fuselage. | |
| And another, closer view. This looks perrrrrfect. Very nice work. You must have a look on his website.... (click here) | |
| And then, as usual, the evaluation session. This time we evaluated the pasta and the wines of a local restaurant. Of course, the pasta was mixed with a lot of rivet talk. To be short... this was again a very successful, pleasant evening. I'm looking forward to the next... | |
| Saturday, October 15nd , 2005 | Continued Center Section + start 2nd bulkhead. The F-705 Bulkhead assembly... |
| In the meantime I received the missing F-782B-L Cover support Rib from Van's. I started drilling all holes in all support ribs. Holes for the different snap bushings. | |
| When I clecoed them in place I noticed a second small mismatch on the parts. A really littke mismatch from the prepunched holes to the center section. Not dramatical but, nevertheless... | |
| All support ribs clecoed in place... | |
| I removed the plastic protection foil and drilled/deburred the parts.
In the meantime, Gerry arrived. Our wives went to a fair in Holland. So, we can together enjoy a day of building... |
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| Both web stiffeners F-704M were made and drilled in place as described in the instructions. | |
| And then we made very precise the two center section spacers. | |
| The instructions mention fabricating wood blocks to keep the distance between both halves exactly the same. We did'nt use this technique but fabricated antother set of spacers with some alu tube. Reason is that bolting together both halves with wood inbetween can press the wood blocks together. Alu tube will stay exactly as it is... | |
| So, the complete Center Section clecoed together. So far so good. We disassembled and deburred all parts. Ready to be primed. But, before we do this, we went on with the next bulkhead. I prefer to have some more parts before starting priming all these small parts... Of course I spotprimed all places on the annodized parts where necessary... | |
| This bulkhead assembly requires a lot of "making from's"... While Ronny (who joined us to) and Gerry started to measure and draw all "to-be-made-parts", I started fabricating them on their instructions. These are the first. Two spacers F-705H. |
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| Measure and draw all cutting lines on the F-705B Center Section Bar... | |
| Also the F-605C bar doublers were made and brought together in this assembly on the rear spar attach bulkhead. | |
| Another view of this assembly | |
| And a closer view with the spacer inbetween. | |
| And then we used all remaining time to finish the Seat Belt Anchors. All these were finished... | |
| Here, an unidentified part... Oh sorry, this looks like Ronny... We almost clecoed him into this bulkhead... | |
| At the end of this very productive day, we received a visit of some fans. Elvira, here niece Martine and Hilde (Gerry's) wife who came back from a day they spent at a hobby fair in Holland...
So, with so many helping hands, the project's progress is spectacular. At this speed, the end of 2006 will be the target first flight date??!! |
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| Time spent for this: | 19,5 hours ... |
| Saturday, October 29th, 2005 | Continue Bulkheads |
| The two F-705K plates need a 4° bend. Gerry took them with him and arranged this precise bend for me. So, now that I have them back I can continue fabricating the top part of the F-705 bulkhead... | |
| One after the other I started to drill all plates in place. | |
| ... and clecoed them together. I disassembled all parts and prepared them for the priming activity. All deburred, controlled for the parts to be countersinked and I stored them away to first continue with all bulkheads. I prefer first to prepare all these parts before starting priming... | |
| The F-706 bulkhead assembly refers to a certain part described on drawing 26. The bellcrank channel and rib. THese have to be riveted together. So, up to that part... | |
| For this assembly some angles have to be made. The F-728B, 729B and C. I started with these... | |
| All these angles were drilled and assembled on the different parts. | |
| It took some time to find-out the right Angle stock to be used. Then suddenly I remembered some stock of angles delivered with the wingkit. Van's should mention this in the instructions. Beware for using the wrong stock... Some of the pre-delivered angles are the longerons and they may not be cut... For ANY reason !!! | |
| A closer view to the connection of the F-729 C and the F-729 B... This can be helpful... | |
| ... and a closer view to the assembly of the F-728B to the Belcrank channel (F-728A) | |
| All the intermediate bulkheads (F-707, 708, 709) are max two parts to be connected. The F-711 and 710 needs fabricating some parts again. Here you can see the F-711C bars and the region to be trimmed after assembling the bars. | |
| After trimming, this should be the result. So, this was the result of one day labour. Next week I have one week free. In a relationship you need to to make time for other things too. So, after next week, I think that I can accelerate the project again. Ronny is in the US again from Monday. So, in two weeks I expect the team to be complete again and then... up to the finishing of this part again... |
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| Time spent for this: | 9 hours ... |
| Friday, November 11, 2005 | Priming parts so far |
| Today we had a holiday in Belgium. Due to my busy activities last weeks I looked really forward to go ahead with the project. For today I planned to prime all the parts so far, so that everything is ready to be riveted together tomorrow... | |
| As you can see, all parts of the different bulkheads were primed. | |
| Tomorrow, it's riveting day... | |
| Time spent for this: | 9 hours ... |
| Saturday, November 12, 2005 | Assembling the bulkheads |
| All rivets on the F-705D were placed, except those described in the notes on the drawings... | |
| The same was done for the F-705 A, F, and the F-605 C. | |
| And last but not least, the F-705 B. The center section bar... | |
| The seat belt anchors were bolt in place and the outer two were trimmed to provide clearance with the seat ribs... | |
| Then I riveted the complete Bellcrank assembly to the F-706 Bulkhead. | |
| The F-706A right and left were riveted to the F-706 B Bulkhead. | |
| And this is at least the endresult of this bulkhead assembly. | |
| The two bulkheads F-707 and 708 were assembled, | |
| The same for the F-710, the F-711 and, at least... | |
| ... the F-712. | |
| Another Bellcrank part assembled... | |
| To finish today, the centersection was riveted where possible. All small parts related to this were also riveted. | |
| ... and of course the same for the forward part of the centre section. So, we did a lot today. We started already with the two longerons. We cut them after 4 checks and started to draw the bending references on it. Pictures of this will follow... | |
| Time spent for this: | 16 hours (Gerry helped me)... |
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