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...

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Fuel injection mounted on engine

A while back I was searching on the internet. I found someone selling a fuel injection system. It was at a fair price so I bought it. Sometimes you can get sunk in deals like these because the cost to fix it up you can almost buy new. However, when it showed up, it was in great condition. I sent it off to Airflow Performance (the leading fuel injection company) and they overhauled the servo and flow divider, then provided me with new injectors, lines, fittings and hardware. All said and done, I had about 1500 into the system instead of 2900 buying it outright from AFP. That works for me!

Leading edge riveted together

I spent a good portion of the night getting the leading edge skin riveted on. The skin come out nice and now I have to put it on the spar and finish riveting it to the spar flanges. I can then pop rivet all of the ribs to the spar in the leading edge section. Next will be to put all the skins back on and start fabbing up the gas tank. Once the gas tank is drilled, I will pull it all apart and start working on riveting the wing skins on.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Left wing fabbed up.

I haven't posted in sometime. I have been working ont the left wing. I have all the skins drilled, except the tank skin. I have all the ribs riveted to the wing spars and the skeleton is mounted in the jig and plumbed. The pitot tube has been fitted and the plumbing is done. All of the small brackets and angles have been drilled. I am now starting to debur, dimple and prime the skins. I will have the leading edge skin riveted together today and mounted on the wing. Then I will start the drilling of the tank skins and fabrication of the tank ribs. It's no easy job building the tank. I am striving to get the left wing done around the end of Febuary. I have tons of pics to post!