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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Got some good work done recently, but it took longer than expected. First, I noticed that when running through the steps that had already been completed on the QB, I didn’t notice that the inboard wing nutplates (for the wing/fuselage …
It’s been a while since the last update, but we’ve been making some progress.
Doing the flap and aileron fairings mean Kelly is back helping with clecos.
I finished doing all the riveting on the gap fairings (except the ones …
We did this a few weeks ago, but I thought I should document what we did. I built the wing cradles from this diagram (and only this diagram). Not sure where it came from, since I downloaded it a long …