Skykits Corporation presents the Savannah

Build Log: Page 5                            

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                                                                                Total time to this point:   93 hours 52 minutes. 

The Savannah demonstrator has successfully completed it's pre-cover inspection.  Now every component can be fully sheeted or closed in.  There is only one more inspection which will occur when the Savannah is ready for flight. 

Now it's time to install the Whelen strobe kit.  The kit consists of an HDACF power supply, wingtip strobe/nav/tail lights and a red tail

strobe.    Here is the wiring inside the wing tip structure.     

Update 11/06:  We now use Tefzel 18/3 wire for the strobes because it's smaller and lighter.

The wings can now be skinned.  Here's the right wing with nose skin and lower skin riveted in place and the upper skin clecoed on.     Next,

the nose skin is folded over using straps to tighten it evenly and then clecoed in place.    After riveting the skins, the fuel tank is installed

from the underside    and then the wing tip is installed with clecoes like this    and then riveted so that the finished

wing tip looks like this with the strobe wires protruding.     Both the Savannah's wings are now completed.   
Total time to complete both wings was 27 hours and 10 minutes

The horizontal stab was completed earlier except for the plastic tips.  These are attached by first installing the supplied angles with clecoes like this

  and then applying corrosion protection and riveting them in place.    Here's the finished horizontal stabilizer. 

  Time to install the stab tips was 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Next is the elevator.  Here it is with the angles installed    and completed.    Same straps go on

the fin.   The wire you see protruding from the end is for the red tail strobe.  Here's the fin with the tip on and the strobe connector

protruding.    Finally the rudder is strapped the same way    and here it is finishing off the

complete tail    with another view looking down showing the trim tab.    Time for final assembly of all the tail
components was 21 hours and 15 minutes.
 

Update 11/06:  It is best to fit all the tail components to the fuselage before painting.  Remove them and paint each one individually before final assembly.

Total time to this point:   145 hours 37 minutes. 
 

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