The Arrival
Well, Christmas came a day early. We received the empennage kit this morning. I was able to hold off all the way until lunch to open everything up and inventory everything. First we had to dig for the inventory list,
Month: March 2019
Staying Current
Well, all this talk of building a plane, and I haven’t even flown one in… well I’ll keep it vague and say months. Got in the rental ride this afternoon and made my requisite 3 full stop landings to get
Tail/Empennage Ordered
We need to mount a camera, mount our TV, and drop power to the secondary bench, but we are nearly done with our workshop. We just finished our toolbox practice kit. We finished a few projects at work that was
Practice Makes Perfect
Well, rivet one was… Not as good as one might hope and needed to be drilled out. But the rest so far look great! I only started on the practice tool box. We need to get Matt’s hands dirty so
Tool Organization
Having a laser engraver is really handy for making tools to stay organized. I promise once we start building, these posts will get more interesting.
The shop takes shape
We’re just about to embark on this journey, and the shop is taking shape. Tables, tools, air, bins, etc… It’s all coming together. Soon we’ll order the empennage kit for our RV7 and start shooting rivets. More to come…