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Wing Stand Build #4: Spar Towers

After a long weekend of Volleyball tournaments, Jack and I snuck away to the hangar for a few hours after a family dinner. We were able to complete the “spar towers” in this session.

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Wing Stand Build #2: building the base

With most of the parts in hand, I put the boys to work in a nice evening session of drilling, assembling, and wrestling with 8020. I made one big mistake that I’ll need to fix later….can you guess what it is?

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Wing Stand Build

It’s finally time to get going on the wing stand. I’m probably a week or two away from needing to put the wing skeletons on there, so along with my friend Finn, we started the planning and fabrication process for the world’s most overengineered wing stand ever built…and it’s going to be awesome!

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Priming Day!….sort of

What started as a session to prime some parts became an evening of friends and community as I jumped head first into a big skill gap I have yet to conquer. Priming! Check out the post to learn all the fun we had.

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bench grinder stand

After laying out the drill press and band saw on the small table. I realized that there wasn’t an easy way to also have the

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