Thus begins the cabin top August 10, 2013August 11, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build I’ve been both looking forward to this section, and dreading it. It represents one of the last big structural components of the plane, but fiberglass Read more
Cabin top initial fit August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build The cabin top is now (roughly) fitted to the fuse. With a new set of cut-off discs for my die grinder, and a nice belt Read more
More cabin cutting August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build More of the same tonight. I cut the openings for the rear windows to size, and did a little more trim work on the windshield Read more
Back at it! October 14, 2013October 14, 2013 Ed 1 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build It’s been two months (to the day), but progress is once again being made! From some of our other posts, you may have gathered that Read more
Cabin top interior smoothing October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Lots of sanding tonight to take off the large bumps and other high spots from the fiberglass molding process. There are some pretty rough spots. Read more
More base smoothing October 19, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Tonight I sanded down and smoothed out the micro I put down last time. Once sanded down, I could see places that still had voids, Read more
And again… October 23, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Once more, same as before! This time I started by taking a bit of material off the back of the cabin top, as it was Read more
Match drilling the cabin top November 10, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build As the title says, today I enlisted the help of my very pregnant assistant to set the cabin top on the fuselage. The rear of Read more
More cabin top stuff November 13, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Tonight I finished match drilling the bottom of the door openings and then counter sunk all the needed screw holes. I went a tad deeper Read more
Windscreen trimming November 14, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Instead of the stock windscreen that comes with the kit, and the rest of the transparencies in the plane, I went with a window kit Read more
Trimming rear windows November 19, 2013November 19, 2013 Ed 2 Comments Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Like the front windscreen, I am using windows from Cee Bailey’s for the rear windows. As I received them, they were pretty close, but did Read more
Aerosport Overhead November 23, 2013November 24, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build As I’ve mentioned before, I’m going to be using the Aerosport overhead console in my build. It’s a single piece of carbon fiber, very stiff, Read more
Rivet Strips December 10, 2013December 10, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Tonight, I started by deburring all the holes that were match drilled in the fuse for the cabin top attachment. Then I deburred all the Read more
Countersinking cabin top December 12, 2013December 12, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build Quick night tonight. I got all the holes in the cabin top countersunk, and the holes in the fuse sides dimpled. The only difference from Read more
Aerosport Overhead Install February 23, 2014March 16, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build I couldn’t wait to pull the seals off to see how the edges looked, so I missed that on the video. But I can tell Read more