Dave's Sonex Builders Log

Welcome to my builders log for Sonex S/N 767. It won't be as big as a real 767 but if you scale the speed I bet it will be almost as fast.


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1. Elevator
2. Firewall Forward
3. Fuselage
4. Horizontal Stabilizer
5. Landing Gear
6. Planning and Paperwork
7. Rudder
8. Tooling
9. Vertical Stabilizer
10. Wings
Hours Summary
Construction 585.74
Planning / Misc 6.10
Tooling 17.63
TOTAL 609.47
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This website is to log my progress while building a Sonex airplane. I purchased the plans for Sonex S/N 767 and began construction around Christmas 2004. I would like to keep my costs down and am currently considering the AeroVee engine. I'm leaning strongly towards tricycle gear.

I've finally settled on using an AeroVee engine and going with the tricycle gear. I know, everyone thinks a Sonex should be built with a tail wheel but I like the tricycle gear and I'm sticking with it.

Recent Builders Log Entries

Jul 3/10
Making Wing Tip Mounting Angles
Type of Work: Construction
Category: Wings
Manual Reference: SNX-W22
1.08 hrs

Jun 20/10
Making Nut Plate Spacers
Type of Work: Construction
Category: Wings
Manual Reference: SNX-W22
Today I finished drilling all of the nut plate spacers for the nut plates with the centered threaded hole. After completing the nut plates I riveted them to the first angle for the bottom rear of the wing tip. I have one more nut plate to attach to this angle. It is a nut plate with the threaded hole at one end. I need to make up special spacers for this style nut plate.
2.85 hrs

Jun 16/10
Making Nut Plate Spacers
Type of Work: Construction
Category: Wings
Manual Reference: SNX-W22
Today I continued to make the nut plate spacers. I made up one more strip of 5/16 inch wide by 1/16 inch thick strip and marked up the holes at 1 inch centers.
0.54 hrs

Jun 13/10
Counter Sunk Spacers
Type of Work: Construction
Category: Wings
Manual Reference: SNX-W22
I worked at making the spacers for mounting the nut plates to the counter sunk holes in the wing tip angles.
1.55 hrs

Jun 12/10
Right Wing Tip
Type of Work: Construction
Category: Wings
Manual Reference: SNX-W22
I up drilled all of the holes on the bottom of the wing for the wing tip angles to #30. I also removed the protective plastic coating. Next I up drilled the holes in the top of the wing for the wing tip angles to #30 and removed the protective plastic coating. I then started to dimple the holes for the countersunk screws. I completed the all of the wing skins and the two bottom angles. The top angles will need to be done with a special C-clamp I made up when making the wing tip for the other wing.

Dimpled Holes Ready For Nut Plates
Dimpled Holes Ready For Nut Plates
   
0.98 hrs

Jun 10/10
Wing Tip Angles
Type of Work: Construction
Category: Wings
Manual Reference: SNX-W22
0.42 hrs

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