Skykits Corporation presents the Savannah

Build Log: Page 2                       

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                                                                                Total time to this point:  14 hours 32 minutes. 

The right wing is started next.  By the way, the build time is the time it took one person to build the component.  Because the wing is so big, a different approach to building is used here.  The parts are cleaned and corrosion protection applied immediately because disassembly is not an easy option. 

Here is the right wing frame cleaned, protected, assembled and riveted.    Time for this assembly is 4 hours 30 minutes.  The structure is now ready to have the skins applied.  A strobe/nav/tail light will be mounted on the wing tip and it's not here yet,  so the right wing is set aside and the left wing is now assembled.

Since the first wing has provided building experience, the second wing should take less time.  In fact it took 3 hours and 5 minutes to get the frame

completed.    It'll be put aside with the other wing.

                                                                                Total time to this point:  22 hours 7 minutes. 

A break was taken from building flying surfaces because the doors looked very interesting, so they were given some attention.  Here's the door frame

exploded so you can see the parts.    This picture gives you a good idea of the quality of the manufacturing.  This is a real door with a

frame, not just tubing attached to plexi-glass.  Here's the pilot's door after 1 hour and 5 minutes.    Here are some close-ups of the

structure.       After another 1 hour and 25 minutes it's all cleaned, corrosion applied and totally assembled

with clecoes.    There are a lot of holes in the door and it took a further 1 hour and 5 minutes to fill them all with rivets.  Here are

front and back views of the finished pilot's door.      Total time for assembly was 3 hours 35 minutes.  The co-pilot's

door took a little less time,  3 hours and 20 minutes.  Here it is. 

                                                                                Total time to this point:  29 hours 2 minutes. 

Now back to flying surfaces and the flaperons.  Here is the right flaperon laid out on the work bench as it will be assembled.    The parts
have been cleaned and corrosion protection applied.  Now here are the two pieces of the right flaperon frame riveted together in 1 hour and 25

minutes.   The skins were clecoed on in 20 minutes.    Here are the two pieces of the right flaperon riveted after 2 hours and 5

minutes    except for the trailing edge of the bottom side.  It's left un-riveted so that the inspector can get a look at the structure.  Total time for the right flaperon was 3 hours and 50 minutes.  It took 3 hours and 35 minutes to complete the left flaperon.  So the flaperons were

built in 7 hours and 25 minutes.  Here are top and bottom views of all four pieces.                                                           

                   
Total time to this point:  36 hours 27 minutes.
 

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