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Engine Update November 2008 Updates November 11, 2008 Emp Fairing and Canopy sides.... - 5.0 hrs Let me start with the Flag shot of my front yard. The reason that flag is there is because it is Veterans Day. When I went out to get the paper this morning that flag was there as a reminder. One of the Boy Scout Troops in the subdivision puts a flag out for the federal holidays that is appropriate to fly the flag and I made a donation to have them provide that service. Veterans Day is a reminder of why we have the freedoms we do. Veterans are one of the reasons I can build this plane and fly it someday. SO I want to thank all of our Veterans for their service to the USA! This includes my dad H. A. "Red" Tolliver - United States Navy Retired 20 years. I love you dad! Today I wanted to get the emp fairing done and the canopy sides. I started with marking the trim lines and drilling the last holes where I need to tap and install nut plates. Next before I removed the fairing for triming I laid out 30 little soldiers (6-32 stainless screws) and dipped the tips in Vibratite so they could dry. While these dried I marked and drilled the last holes in the fairning including the bottom piece. Then I removed it and trimed to final shape. I used a vibrating sander to clean up the edges and round all of the corners. I had to use the heat gun to get the bottom pieces to lay up against the bottom skins of the horizontal emp. Next I moved on to the canopy sides. First off I installed the screws and acorn nuts in every other hole and snugged them down. I am going with the chrome acorn nuts as it looks nice with the black canopy trim on the inside. Next I installed the pop rivets on the second line and then snugged down the rest of the screws and then tightend them all up. Overall feels like I made good progress but some of these little detail things seem to take forever. This website was built to document my work in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build any aircraft.