Looks great Brian, now is when you see how worth while all that prep work was you did, keep it up.

Those sure look nice Chad, bet it felt just as good.

First visit, just a taste of what is yet to come.

Congrats Dave!

Never noticed, so thanks. BTW, I hate spammers even more.

I too had issues putting this part of the fuse together, but found a couple of things that made a huge difference. The first was to pre-bend all the flanges on the bulkheads to the proper angle, especially important on the F-711 and F-712. If you leave them at the angles as supplied, getting it toge...

That looks terrific Bruce, and after seeing how many painted versions are scuffed after a few years it should hold its finish much longer.

Ah, another one leaving the home nest to get ready for the real world

Great milestone Brian!

Great step forward Mike!

What a unique perspective, seeing where you were pointing you head. Only thing missing was the mirror to see that grin which must have been w i d e.

Congrats again!

Hmmm, end of February and no snow, and 3 1/2 years ago, you been holding out on us

Congrats on second flight Chad. Great to finally meet you in person.

Hi John, good to see you post, especially one like that, you must be proud to see it completed.

hydroguy2 wrote:Don, just looked it up for you. It's called The Black Otter in Hortonville.

Black Otter Supper Club
503 S Nash St, Hortonville, WI 54944

thanks Brian!

I have limited comm at Sloshkosh, could some mention the full name or at least what town it is in. I know I should have looked it up before I left.

Congrats to Bill for building a trouble free first flight 6, an excellent achievement. Must be quite the feeling to get to fly first flight on such a plane.

Sometimes you just have stand back and look at these kits as they come together, they represent so much more than what you see in a picture. Nice work Brian, and what a peaceful looking place to be building.

I do a lot of things the hard way, so take this for what's it worth. I would likely buy a cheap unibit and modify the shank one of two ways. 1) simply put it my drill press upside down and file the shaft down so it would fit in the right angle chuck 2) do sorta the same thing as above, but to the si...

Been there too, that is the design, nothing you can do about expect learn that rules/guidelines are sometimes broken. I worried about so much I did the math to calculate what could be done with that design, and it turns out it can not meet the normal edge distance requirement no matter how hard you ...

Hi ScottT, Here is how I did it, making sure there was still at least 1/4" edge distance to the rivet holes. I thought about bending the edge too, but just smoothed it out. http://www.experimentalrv7a.com/images/emp/horizontalstab/tn_0348.jpg When you go to drill the rivet holes in the flanges using...

Looks great Spike!

I hadn't noticed anything about the fuel pump either, nuts.

Excellent Bruce. I've fallen so far behind in so many things, glad you are making good progress.