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Father’s Day Family Fun Flight

June 26, 2017June 28, 2017 Ed 4 Comments - Travels -

Oh hay there! It’s been awhile since we posted a travel video… and we’re going to blame it on him… Sorry kid, we’ll get to

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Protected: January Destination Discussion

December 26, 2016December 26, 2016 Ed Patron Only Content

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Backcountry Airplane Camping at Johnson Creek, ID

December 20, 2016December 20, 2016 Ed 5 Comments - Travels -

When I pictured airplane camping in my mind, I always thought of the amazing photos I’d seen of people camping by their planes in Johnson

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Instrument panel walk-thru video

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 Ed 8 Comments General

If a picture is worth a thousand words, at 30 frames per second, this video is worth 60,720,000 words! As promised, here is a walk-thru of

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Flight Report: OSHKOSH 2016 (Part 1)

August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 Ed 0 Comment - Travels -

(Click here to skip right to the Flight Report Video) With the amount of stuff that we do at Oshkosh, we’re going to break this

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Timelapse Videos: How I did it

July 2, 2016July 19, 2016 Ed 4 Comments RV10 Build

I often get asked how I made all the timelapse videos of my build. It was a pretty straight forward thing to do, and after

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First avionics upgrade!

June 25, 2016July 19, 2016 Ed 4 Comments Maintenance/Upgrades, RV10 Build

After having flown for 10 LONG months, my panel was starting to show it’s age, so… TIME FOR AN UPGRADE!!! Yup. That’s right! I’m swapping

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It’s Done(er?)

June 16, 2016June 21, 2016 Ed 2 Comments RV10 Build

Yup. I know I said that the plane was done before. And it was… mostly… Thursday, June 16, 2016, the weather finally allowed me to

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Abridged version: It’s Done(ish)!

August 29, 2015May 18, 2016 Ed 7 Comments RV10 Build

As of the writing of this entry, my last update was posted in February 11th. I’ve been really focusing on getting the plane done, so

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Wing tip lights

February 11, 2015June 9, 2015 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Wings, Wingtips

Now that the wingtips were fit to the wings, I could begin installing the lights and other misc things that are going in there. First,

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Wingtip 3

February 9, 2015June 9, 2015 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Wings, Wingtips

Finished installing nutplates in the right wingtip.

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Wingtip 2

February 8, 2015June 9, 2015 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Wings, Wingtips

Repeat of last night, with the other wingtip

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Wingtips

February 7, 2015June 9, 2015 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Wings, Wingtips

With the wings skins all done, I could start working on the fiberglass wingtips. I got the left wingtip trimmed to fit, then I taped

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Bottom skins are done

February 6, 2015June 9, 2015 Ed 0 Comment Bottom Skins, RV10 Build, Wings

Sprint to the finish tonight. I hammered out the last wing panel!

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SO MANY RIVETS!

February 4, 2015June 9, 2015 Ed 0 Comment Bottom Skins, RV10 Build, Wings

I did a LOT of riveting tonight!!! I riveted on the larger outer panel on the left wing (the one that I had already installed

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