Hello Everyone, I’m still alive and kicking. I apologize for the long break in my blogging, and building updates. I certainly didn’t anticipate for the break to be this long. The good news is, you haven’t missed any building progress, because I haven’t done any building (well, not airplane building). I’ll explain more below. Back […]
F1 Sportwing Kit (actually…RV-4 Wing Kit) Ordered
Over the past few weeks I’ve been pondering whether or not to order a wing kit. After just being though Christmas and also having taken possession of my new house on 19 December, now is really not a good time to be making such a large purchase. However, in this case, time is of the […]
Horizontal Stabilizer – Forward Spar Riveting
Moving along with riveting on the horizontal stabilizer, tonight I’m starting to work on riveting the forward spar. Again, I started by clecoing the spar, reinforcing angles and F1 Rocket doubler mod together. Again, in the photo below you can note by the black clecos that there are a few larger rivets (5/32″) that are […]
Horizontal Stabilizer – Rear Spar Riveting
After all the hard work of building, prepping, priming, drilling and getting the horizontal stabilizer to this point, I’m finally getting to do some riveting! This is always the most exciting part of the build process because it is where you get the most visual progress, and best of all…these parts aren’t having to come […]