longranger
Well Known Member
I'm already: 1)Dating and checking the boxes in the build manual, 2)Doing a Picasa Web Album and 3)Doing a Kitlog. Now this! If I can't prove I'm building this thing, I'll give up!
The Journey Begins
I broke out the vixen file and radiused the edges of the HS reinforcement bars on December 17, 2011 - 108 years to the day after Orville and Wilbur first separated themselves from their shadow in a powered airplane.
Two days short of 3 months later, I plan to roll and rivet the leading edge and drop the trim servo in the left elevator tonight and call the metalwork on the empennage done (for now). This elevator is rougher than I'd like and I'm seriously considering having Van's throw a new skin and trim tab parts in the SB wing or fuselage kit I'm expecting in about 2 weeks.
A few shots of the journey so far...
Rivet #1:
Evidence of an understanding wife:
Poundin' those rivets...
The Journey Begins
I broke out the vixen file and radiused the edges of the HS reinforcement bars on December 17, 2011 - 108 years to the day after Orville and Wilbur first separated themselves from their shadow in a powered airplane.
Two days short of 3 months later, I plan to roll and rivet the leading edge and drop the trim servo in the left elevator tonight and call the metalwork on the empennage done (for now). This elevator is rougher than I'd like and I'm seriously considering having Van's throw a new skin and trim tab parts in the SB wing or fuselage kit I'm expecting in about 2 weeks.
A few shots of the journey so far...
Rivet #1:
Evidence of an understanding wife:
Poundin' those rivets...
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