From the Maplewoods workshop: Steve's RV7 project: On to the right wing

The Mission:

I am building an airplane. I really can't tell you how weird it sounds to me to hear those words in my head as I type. I am keeping this blog as an adjunct to my written log, which is required to comply with FAA requirements for Experimental Aircraft construction. My son Doug is my partner in this project. There are two goals: to build the best, safest, and yes, COOLEST, airplane we can, and to allow Doug to acquire some truly awesome experiences, not to mention building skills. Thanks for viewing.

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The most current post is displayed on this opening page. To access the older posts, click on the "Blog Archive" on the right hand side. The drop down menu is arranged by the month and lists the posts, by title and by date posted, in reverse chronological order.

I will arrange the hypertext links to other websites I find interesting better some day, but they are at the bottom.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

On to the right wing

Well, we finally got to the completion point on the left wing where we could take it down off the construction jig and lay it on a table for the final internal components. The pitot wires and tubing are in, the wires are in, the ballast for the HID landing lights is in, the stall warner, and the control rods to the aileron. We will finish riveting on the bottom skins and then move the left wing to the hangar to mate with the fuselage. Now we start again on the right wing, BUT most of the sub-assemblies are actually done, so hopefully progress on the right wing should go even faster than the left.

At this point, out time in the garage seems to be dwindling. Because of the size of the fuselage, especially after the wings get attached, we are constrained to finish at the hangar.