Category: Doors

The doors on the RV10 have a reputation of being one of the more difficult, frustrating, and time consuming portions of the build process. Historically,

I just had a little time to work on the plane today, so I decided to pull the pilots side door off the cabin top

Just like yesterday, I just had a little time to put into the plane today. Also just like yesterday, I did some of the rough

The goal for today was to get the hinges installed on the pilot door. To accomplish that, I first needed to make sure the upper

Tonight was just like the other noght, except on the right door. I finished getting the upper portion of the door shaved down to fit

Tonight, I continued to work down the door to get the fit to the cabin top closer. Having the door hinged in place made this

A continuation of last night. Slowly working my way around the door trying to get the consistent 1/4″ gap. One issue I ran into is

Tonight I started working on the pilots side door to get the consistent 1/4″ gap for the McMaster seals.       

I started off tonight by going some more tweaking on the fit of the left door. Then I changed it up and started to work

With the right sized drill bits in hand, I was able to continue on the door handle assemble. The instructions are fairly straight forward, but

The RV10 doors are secured in the closed position by two pins at the bottom front and bottom rear corners of the door. These pins

There is a safety feature built into the handle of the RV10. There is a button on the inner handle you need to push before

Tonight was spent figuring out how everything actually fit into the door. Again, there was a lot of tweaking, grinding, sanding, and cutting to make

More door latch work today. I finished up putting the pilots door handle parts together. The last step that I needed to do was to

Tonight, I started by fine tuning the PlaneAround angled door pins. Since the door pins have a slash cut angle at the end of them