2004 Flight from KKLS

2004 Flight from KKLS
This photo is from when I was flying the airplane out of Longview, WA. This was taken early in the morning..

RV-6 #25188 in flight

RV-6 #25188 in flight
Doug Eves sent this photo of the Ol' girl in flight. Taken from the ground, this is a great shot. You can see he is "relaxing" in his office in the sky...

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Waiting, waiting, waiting...

I have been waiting for parts to show up via UPS. I need some -3 nutplates so I can rivet together the aileron. Since I can't button the dang thing up, I have been working on constructing the flap. I have most of the brackets built and the spars lightening holes cut out. I will start drilling the spars to the skins and getting the thing fabbed up. I will bet that the nutplates will not show up until Monday. I have also cut the aileron push/pull tube and ground off the powder coating on the ends so I can have them welded to the inserts for rod-eyes. Once the aileron is done I can start the alignment process to the wing and drill/rivet the hinge brackets to the rear spar. Once this is done you get the gap seal in place, mount the flap brace, cut out the push/pull tube hole in the rear spar, run all the electrical wiring, then rivet the bottom skins on. After that is some minor work here and there and the wing tip. In all reality, I could have the right wing done in a couple of weeks if I pushed hard on it. We will see.