James Roberts - Experimental Aircraft Builder's Log

James Roberts Zodiac XL Build

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Date: 7-23-2008
Number of Hours: 12.00
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Brief Description: Installation of the rear fuselage side skins

This was quite an exciting element of the build as it was the first time that you assembled very large pieces of the aircraft with farily instance results....going from nothing to something that resembles a canoe. One of the important elements of this portion of the build was to ensure that the fuselage sides are square to the fuselage floor (at 90 degrees). I had to buy six odd squares to achieve this.

The lower longeron splice.

The top of the horizontal tail frame.

The rear fuselage side cleco'd in place.

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