These pictures are of the left door, but I’ve completed this step on both doors. The pins, extend out of the bottom of the forward and aft sides of the door and into the door frame, keeping the door closed. …
I did the right door initial trim after gluing, and am very pleased with how it matches the contour of the cabin top.
Now that the door fit well *on* the cabin top, it was time to trim it to …
In the last week, I continued fitting the left door, getting it to the point that it’s mounted to the hinges and can open and close reasonably well. I’m waiting until I have the door seals (from McMaster-Carr) before doing …
Last weekend, Kelly and I started two major tasks: doors and firewall forward (FWF).
The doors on the RV-10 are notoriously difficult and frustrating to get right. You have to fit them just right on the cabin top, which involves …
We have heard that building, fitting, and attaching both doors can take as much as 40 hours each to complete 🙁 Rob jumped right into this big part of the project this past weekend. Hopefully we can complete both doors …
Now that all of the instruments are talking we were able to rivet on the instrument panel and canopy. It is really starting to look like an airplane now.
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Rob has been spending many hours getting the panel and subpanel holes cut and aligned to accept the instrument panel and large instrument stack brackets. After many precise measurement we have exciting new angle brackets as extra support for the …
We made what should be our final trip to Aurora, OR to pick up the finishing kit (doors, windows, wheels, etc.) and the instrument panel, better known as the dashboard for non pilots:)
Rob spent many hours working with the …
This past weekend Rob drilled the backing aluminum strips for the canopy and then countersunk the holes. The sun was out in full force so it was once again time to dig out the free hat from the Arlington Airshow……
Sorry for the lack of updates. We’ve done some miscellaneous work over the past couple months, which I’ll talk about in a later post. Over the long 4th of July weekend, we decided to attach the empennage and get everything …