From mid November through the holidays we have spent a very limited amount of time on the airplane. We have instead been traveling and visiting with family. In December Kelly’s sister (Kari) and brother-in-law (Brant) stayed at our place where …
Happy Holidays from our airplane filled garage to you! We copied an idea that Rob found in the airplane community to make our annual Christmas card picture a chance to show family and friends the progress we have made so …
We got a bunch of work done on the wingtips last weekend. We aligned the flaps and ailerons, then test fit the wingtips to make sure the trailing edges all aligned. Final result, they’re “close enough”–one or two 16ths off. …
Last weekend, Kelly and I attended the RV-10 composites class offered by Aircrafters (a builder assist shop) in Watsosnville, CA. To my knowledge, it’s the only composites class specific to the RV-10, so when I heard about and heard the …
It’s been a while since the last post. Since then, we’ve closed the right wing. Dynon finally released their autopilot servos, so we installed a roll servo, pictured below.
Also note the Dynon OAT sensor in the upper-right of the …
No work has gotten done this week, due to work, friends, and me being *really* sick for the past couple days. Here’s what’s upcoming before we can call the wings “done”
- Finish riveting right bottom outboard skin
- Leak test the
We’re using the Dynon heated pitot with the Gretz mount. We pretty much had to figure out the pitot tube installation ourselves. I cut the hole in the skin reasonably well. It’s now mounted and the tubes (pitot and AOA) …
We finished the wiring for both wings and mounted the ballasts for the landing lights.
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A friend gave me his old battery, so we were finally able to test some of the electric components. We hooked up the LED nav lights (pictured below), the strobes, HID landing lights, and pitot heat, and everything works fine–reassuring …
We decided to dimple the right side bottom wing skin one night. The garage is pretty full, so we had to do it outside, and it got dark faster than we expected.
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