Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Empennage - Getting Started

It has been a while since I've updated anything. I drove to Indiana December 8th to pick up everything, and it was a garage full! The rudder, vertical stab, and horizontal stab were for the most part completed, and the elevators in the initial assembly state. I started by going through the plans step-by-step on each component and inspected the work completed so far. There will be a handful of repairs that I will eventually need to fix.

Currently I have finished the initial assembly of the elevators and am now dimpling, dimpling.... dimpling!




Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Preparing

I'll start by saying that this week I will be starting my build by acquiring tools/machines and an RV-10 empennage kit that is already in progress. The past few weeks I have been casually preparing my two car garage for the kit's arrival. Which basically entailed cleaning the garage and building two of the EAA Chapter 1000 workbenches. It's not much to look at, but here it is: