1 hr. on the seat back.

On advice from PeterC I flipped and swapped the outer angle bracket around and now the holes line up.  Thanks Peter!  And on the advice of Simon I checked that the back isn't warped and that's fine.  Thanks Simon!

All the parts in place...  Though checking Jim's blog I see that he mentions that there are some small channel parts (CHL-016) that fit inside of CHL-006 at the bottom of the seat.  I'll need to check on that.

All the parts in the right place.

1 hr. working on the front seat back.

Starting...

Wrapping around the top...

Pushing CHL-017 down through the holes..

In place.

Other side.

Other edge and angle piece.

Hmm, these holes don't line up between the angle and channel.  Probably will just ream those out.  Bigger rivets perhaps.

2 hrs. gathering parts and peeling plastic...

Gathered parts for the front seat backs.  About an hour and half peeling the plastic off...

1 hr. not accomplishing much...

Well, I drilled a new hole in my reamer stand for the AN3-sized reamer...

Gathered my parts for the seat belts only to discover that those aren't the right large washers (at least I don't think they're right).  They're supposed to be 6mm inside diameter and those are much larger.  Searched around and could not find the appropriate washers.  Will search again tomorrow.
Short of that I think I'll start on the seats since I'm waiting for the brake master cylinder before I can work on the hand brake assembly.

.5 hrs (hey, it's still too freak'n cold...) doing some quick work on the throttle quad.

My new reamer bit for AN3 bolts came, so I reamed out the holes to size and that worked very well.  Still a bit tight, but that's good.

Attached those parts and that was enough for me in the cold garage...

2 hrs. working on the throttle quadrant.

Put in the M3 rivnuts.

Spring...  I wish the weather were more spring-like...

Needs to be a castle nut.

The holes that the AN3 bolts have to go through are undersized, so I'm ordering a chucking reamer for that size (slightly smaller though .1870 (3/16ths is .1875).

And I made a great New York-Style Cheescake yesterday. :-)  This recipe.  Amazing!

Well, still not much actual work done...  Finally starting my new job at Intel tomorrow as a hardware designer, so I've been busy trying to get stuff done before that.

Still though, I've been thinking about the engine and gathering more info on the EdgePerformance modified Rotax 912 option.  I got the install manual now, so that will help me figure out the electrical and plumbing for the engine.  This mod adds turbocharging and electronic fuel injection to a 912 ULS.

Got this photo of an install of the engine with mod.  Nice.

Also, bought this mini-sander attachment for my electric drill to use for sanding filled rivets.  Thanks PeterC for the idea to try a new approach for doing that tedious task.

Well, this has been my least productive week so far...  Either too much other stuff to do or it's been too cold.  6 F (-14 C) outside this morning meant no way the garage was going to get warm enough to work in there...

Maybe tomorrow??  Massive snow storm coming on Tuesday, but that shouldn't matter (as long as it's not too cold...).

For your entertainment, here's a picture from my parent's wedding in 1955. :-)

Seems that blogging runs in the family!  My daughter Julia just started a blog for women that covers skin care and cosmetics.  She really knows her stuff, so please share!  Thanks!

https://www.julespaige.com/

One thing that has been somewhat limiting my time on the plane (but not too much! ;-)) is an idea I've been working on.  It's called Emergency Runways.  I actually first had the idea back in 2008 and built an early website back then.  But, it got put on the back burner after awhile.  Not anymore!  After talking to other pilots and entrepreneur friends I decided to spin the prop again.

I've spent the last few months writing the detailed specifications and now the development team is in place to develop my EmergencyRunways.com website and app for use in flight and we're moving ahead to make it the reality I envisioned back then!

I'm offering deep discounts on paid memberships (there will also be limited free memberships) in order to raise money to complete the development and launch the service.

The first 100 signed up at $75 will get lifetime subscriptions for no additional cost! After that the next 50 at $150 will get the same deal.

Check it out here: http://www.emergencyrunways.com/learn-more.html

Please feel free to share anywhere you'd like for other pilots to see.

I also appreciate your thoughts and feedback.

Thanks!

1 hr. doing some un-boxing! :-)

The cowling and wheel pants.

World of Wheels! ;-)

Seats!

Sides

My quick built canopy!  Nice!

Some of the cabling for the parachute.

Putting some of the seats in position.  Like!

I haven't disappeared!  I've been working hard on an aviation safety startup idea I've had, so I've been super focused on getting that to the next step.  I'll post something on that tonight.

I also have arriving today a bunch of boxes from TAF!  Including my eagerly anticipated quick built canopy.  I'll try and post pictures of that tonight.

So you don't wrack your brain, I figured out the math problem that I posted.  The curve defined is an involute of a circle.  See here.

When it's 13 degrees F outside the garage isn't warm enough to work in....  Sigh...

1.5 hrs. clearing out garage as much as possible to make room for arriving sub-kits.  Should be interesting...  String wiring through the rear fuselage and prepping parts for the throttle and brake lever assemblies.  And a math problem for my blog readers. ;-)

Other than the magnometer, all the wiring in the rear fuselage is strung through.  Elevator trim, COM1, COM2, VOR and tail lights.

Part gathering...

Know basic trig and geometry?  Like a challenge?  I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out the following and I feel like I'm one or two relationships away from solving this.  Any thoughts?  Email me if you solve it or have a hint!  Note that the tangent line seems to point toward the upper point, but that's merely coincidental.  If you moved the lower right point up a bit, it clearly wouldn't.