Strikefinder
Member
Hi all,
I'm guessing I'm about halfway through the wings now (it seems like I've been halfway for better part of a year, but that's another story...), and I'm allowing myself to think about what the next phase of the project will look like. I've seen a lot of threads discussing the slow build vs quick build fuselage and feel like I've got a pretty good handle on the differences, but I feel like I haven't gotten a good feel for what happens after that.
For the most part, I've enjoyed building the wings, and I'm excited about the variation on the fuselage, so I'm leaning toward slow build. But I see several estimates of about 400ish hours for the wings and 500ish hours for the fuselage, so along with a 100 hours or so on the empennage, that sounds like about 1000 hours by the time the fuselage is done. Obviously, then you've got canopy, engine, avionics, prop, etc., but I then see people saying it took them 2500 to 3000 hours to finish their aircraft.
Do the steps after the fuselage really entail 2000 more hours of build time? Or is there just a disconnect between what people are logging or their build styles? I'm just wondering if I'm hitting the target to be done with the wings in around 400-450 hours, what have others experienced for total time at that pace?
I'm guessing I'm about halfway through the wings now (it seems like I've been halfway for better part of a year, but that's another story...), and I'm allowing myself to think about what the next phase of the project will look like. I've seen a lot of threads discussing the slow build vs quick build fuselage and feel like I've got a pretty good handle on the differences, but I feel like I haven't gotten a good feel for what happens after that.
For the most part, I've enjoyed building the wings, and I'm excited about the variation on the fuselage, so I'm leaning toward slow build. But I see several estimates of about 400ish hours for the wings and 500ish hours for the fuselage, so along with a 100 hours or so on the empennage, that sounds like about 1000 hours by the time the fuselage is done. Obviously, then you've got canopy, engine, avionics, prop, etc., but I then see people saying it took them 2500 to 3000 hours to finish their aircraft.
Do the steps after the fuselage really entail 2000 more hours of build time? Or is there just a disconnect between what people are logging or their build styles? I'm just wondering if I'm hitting the target to be done with the wings in around 400-450 hours, what have others experienced for total time at that pace?