Mistakes were made. Learned a lot. Glad I learned these lessons on the practice project and not the airplane. Got lots of practice drilling out rivets.
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Match drilled vertical stabilizer skin to substructure
We had help from my brother-in-law, John O’Brien today. Lot’s of fun building with family! We cleco’d the skin to the substructure, match drilled all the #40 holes, disassembled everything, and peeled the blue plastic from the rivet lines on the skins with a soldering iron that I blunted on the bench grinder.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Empennage Time (hours): | 4.5 |
| Total Time (hours): | 4.5 |
And so it begins!
I didn’t get to shoot primer on the practice project today. I had to work and then brine the turkey for thanksgiving. There wasn’t enough daylight left after all of that. So instead we decided to actually start work on the airplane this evening. I’ll spray primer on the practice project and the vertical stabilizer all together this weekend.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.5 |
| Empennage Time (hours): | 2.5 |
| Total Time (hours): | 2.5 |
Ron's RV-14A Build Log 