While we were building the wings we had numerous interruptions due to harvest and holidays.Since arriving home we have been building flat out while trying not to let the farm interrupt us to much.

I would like to point out that Ole's builder support program is exceptional (we are first time builders) and any problems that we have had have been sorted out over the telephone. Most of the time its been because I haven't read the manuals properly. Yes there are two comprehensive manuals that take it step by step.
The next pieces we built were the slats and they started out looking like this.

The slats finished up looking like this. We had four of these to build and our total time to date was 132 hours. Our next project is the flapperons again four to build and they started out like this.

The flaperons took us another 25 hours to build . So far total build time has been 157 hours.

Hi everyone this is my blog on the building of our Hornet Stol aircraft designed by Ole Hartmann from Australian Aircraft Kits www.aircraftkits.com.au The pictures above are the veiw and the shed in which we are going to build our plane in. The kit arrived on the 17 October 2005 at around 11 am. We started unpacking immediately and we finished at 2 pm



All of the unpacking has been done and the kit is laid out on the floor

After spending a few hours going over the kit list and marking everything of we started to build the wings this was only possible because we had had the manuals for over a month before the kit arrived.

The following pictures are from the first hole being drilled to the first skins being put on

The wings took 102 hours to build. The whole kit is aluminum and is what I would consider a quick build kit. The next few pictures are the fitting of the leading and trailing edges.

While we were building the wings we had numerous interruptions due to harvest and holidays.Since arriving home we have been building flat out while trying not to let the farm interrupt us to much.