Tonight (and for about 15 minutes yesterday), I enlisted the help of my favorite riveting assistant, the lovely Colleen. Together we were able to get
Category: Empennage
Tail Cone Riveting, Part 6
Yup. This is my 6th riveting session on the tail cone, and I think I only have another day or two to finish up. Tonight
Colleen gets to sit in the plane!
….well the tail cone at least! She is officially the first person to sit in this RV10. More on that later. I started by back
Tail cone done! ….for now…
Between Memorial Day out of town with Colleen’s family and chores around the house that didn’t get done last weekend, tonight was the first night
Putting it all together, part 1
Today was the first day that I could actually see part of an airplane in my garage… instead of a bunch of airplane parts. I
Pushrods and trim
Got a quick 1.5 hours in tonight. I got the elevator push rod and all the trim components fab’d up and I think I’m ready
Misc Priming
Got the trim system parts and elevator pushrod primed.
Final tail cone assembly
Tonight, I was able to rivet together the elevator pushrod, get it installed (temporarily) in the plane, and the system lined up and checked for
Fiberglass 101
Fiberglass is something that I have never worked with before. The RV10 is an aluminum plane, so what do I need fiberglass for? Well, there
Emp fairings, part 2
Just a quick hour and a half to sand down the first coat of micro, and apply another thin coat to fill a few low