The original plan was to have the tailcone completed before picking up the wings and fuselage, but that didn’t happen. We are happy to report that the tailcone is now completed and the work is moving on to the wings. …
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 …
Well, the day finally arrived. Our quickbuild kit was ready for pickup in Oregon, so Kelly and I took the train down to Oregon to pick it up. It was kind of a roundabout way to get there–train to Portland, …
A family from Salt Lake City flies to the San Juans in their RV-10 for Memorial Day weekend: http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=30629…
I’ve been horrible keeping this site updated. We’ve been working on the elevators the past couple months. Things have been going smoothly, with a couple exceptions:
- I Accidentally grabbed a can of “High Build Primer Surfacer” instead of the self-etching
We got a lot of work done this weekend. Kelly spent most of her time removing clecos and taping rivets in place, and I followed shooting the rivets. It’s amazing how quickly the work goes when there’s two working on …
Finally finished riveting the forward spar to the skins. I also showed Kelly how to rivet; she seems like a natural.…
We flipped the HS around so we could rivet the top. In less than 2 hours, I got the top left skin completely riveted to the forward spar. This definitely goes faster with practice.…
Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to work recently. I did get a couple hours in today, and now both sides of the bottom skin are completely riveted to the forward spar.…
Finished riveting the nose ribs to the forward spar, except for the inboard nose rib on each side–too difficult to access in the cradle. I’ll do those after everything else on the HS is complete, as the plans suggest.
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