From the Maplewoods workshop: Steve's RV7 project: Has it really been two months?

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.

If you navigate to my first post, there is a link to my luthiery pages. I miss working with wood. Aluminum is nice, but it's boring. Give me a highly figured maple any day!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Has it really been two months?

I have been working at the hangar. I have also been working at work, and at home. Where I haven't been working recently is on this blog. Sorry

It is a tradition a chez nous to take a photo of the boys at the pumpkin patch. We have been doing this for twenty years, since Mike was a baby. I cherish these photos, since they are a visual timeline of the growth and maturation I see in these two guys. What hasn't changed in twenty years of photographing is Sue. She still looks exactly as she did twenty years ago. I don't.

These next shots are in reverse chronological order. I'm not sure how that happened in the upload, but so be it. I have been working on the firewall, the canopy and some interior work. We have painted the interior. This first shot is a MAJOR milestone. The engine, and the main gear, are on. For the first time, N1991M is on her own two feet.