Tonight was a pretty special night in the build. I pulled from storage a wing cradle that was given to me by a fellow builder a few years back. Marvin McGraw was putting the finishing touches on his beautiful RV-14 when I reached out to him to purchase his remaining … Continue reading
Another quick build session, but closing out some good work on the wings. I was able to rivet both of the flap braces onto the wings. Here are the timelapse videos: And a closeup of the left wing: Not much to report, I grabbed the flap braces and verified I … Continue reading
I was able to get both the left and right wing aileron gap fairings riveted on the wings. I captured the process in timelapse, heres those videos: And a better close-up view: I started out by dimpling the W-724 aileron gap fairings to accept the AN426AD3-3 rivets for the skin … Continue reading
Starting to get the last remaining parts from my shelf, and onto the airplane! After I let the parts I primered, cure, they are ready to go onto the wings. I needed to get the aileron brackets riveted on, and I figured it would be easier to do with the … Continue reading
Another BIG work session done with the help of my wife Tammy! We managed to get all the bottom skins, aileron brackets, pitot parts, flap braces, and aileron seals primed during this work session. I thought I captured two time lapse videos, but I must have bumped the camera on … Continue reading
Tammy helped me rivet the right wing top skins tonight! We had a sitter at Nana’s house, so we went down and got the last portion of two-person riveting done tonight. I captured the entire work session in timelapse, hers those videos: Closer view of the riveting process: We started … Continue reading
A quick update on this one. I’ve decided to do one big priming session this weekend to be efficient. Planning on priming all the bottom wing skins, the aileron brackets, flap braces and aileron gap seals all in one go. So, I needed to get the deburring work done on … Continue reading
I did a little work on the W-721 flap braces and W-724 aileron seals tonight. I had match drilled them to the spars and skins in a previous session, so this session I focused on deburring the holes, edges and getting them ready for priming. Here are the time lapse … Continue reading
After grabbing a bite to eat after finishing up the wing skins, I came back down and decided to rivet together the aileron brackets. In the last session with these things, I alodined all the parts and sprayed primer on the angle brackets mating surfaces. Everything is cured and ready … Continue reading
Big day today thanks to the help from my wife Tammy! We managed to get the top skin fully riveted on the left wing! This is a big step in the wing construction, as it means the wing can officially come out of the wing stands, and can go in … Continue reading