Finishing the Empennage! Wow! I can’t believe it’s been nearly 3 months since I’ve posted. I guess my new years resolution is to update the site more often! We have been super busy with the airplane since the quick build kit arrived. When I posted last, we still had the horizontal stabilizers set up in…
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Quick Build Kit When we first jumped into the project back in July, We were told by Van’s that we could expect our quick build kit around the beginning of October. Well, low and behold, Van’s is perfect with their estimations. Our fuselage, wings, and finishing kit were delivered on Friday, October 9th, and our…
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Home Improvement… So it’s been about two months since I’ve updated this! We’ve been doing a little bit of work on the plane, but we’ve mostly been making some improvement to the garage (the airplane workshop). When we started, the garage didn’t have any insulation in the ceiling and, really, the ceiling was just a…
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Horizontal Stabilizer – Taking Shape Over the past week, we’ve been hard at work on the horizontal stabilizer. To start with, we fabricated the HS908 attach angles and clecoed them on before drilling out their matching holes. After that, we took the eight elevator hinges and clecoed those onto the rear spar of the horizontal…
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1… 2… 3… 4… 5… Are we done yet? Yesterday, we finished inventorying the last piece of the empennage kit. The folks at Van’s surely aren’t getting paid enough because they did a wonderful job of making sure we got everything we needed. There was a trim bundle with the empennage kit and, from what…
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It’s here! In the middle of the afternoon yesterday, the doorbell rang and the Fedex man stood on the front porch with two large boxes. The empennage came a day earlier than expected, which is always a treat! Dad and I weren’t home at the time, so Phal (dad’s wife) got to sign for them.…
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So, after years of dreaming, dad has finally gone ahead and ordered the RV-9A empennage kit. The kit is coming Friday and we’re scrambling to get our hangar (garage, really) ready for the build. Unfortunately, we’ve still got about a two week wait for the tools. That’s okay though, because inventory might take a while!…
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