Yeah, yeah, yeah, it has been a while since I posted and update. A few things have happened, namely a certain wedding of a certain daughter but that is just excuses excuses. Anyway, a few weeks ago, I mostly completed this section which has taken several months from start to finish. Actually, this was one […]
Just a quick update to sort of prove I am still working on the airplane. I am in the middle to working with the fiberglass on the wheelpants but I recently installed and wired the control sticks (Tosten CS-8). As per the Tosten instructions, I trimmed off 3 1/4″ from the control columns. However, I […]
In this section I attached some heavy metal pieces such as the landing gear and engine mount. The total time spent wasn’t all that much compared to other sections but it had some very satisfying moments: The engine mount was pretty straight forward by attaching it to the front of the fuselage with 4 bolts. […]
This one will be relatively quick. I put together the seatbacks; however, these will not be used in the airplane due to my plan of buying the seats from a vendor (Classic Aero). I decided to assemble the parts in order to have support while I am installing the Avionics. Oh, and to sit in […]
Wow, that took a minute. The canopy is finally complete but that had to be the longest section, so far, with the most hours, and the most time span. I left off in the previous post, which seems several months ago, with preparing to fiberglass the leading edge of the point where the canopy meets […]
After about a 6 month wait after ordering, the final kit arrived from Vans. Unfortunately many pieces were on back order but I had enough parts to get started and keep me occupied for several months. Well, after arrival in August 2021, I am still working on the 1st section in November 2021. I will […]
I know it has been a minute since I posted but that doesn’t mean I have not done anything on the airplane. I am currently in the middle of Section 38 which is the window, and it is easily the most time consuming section of the project so far. After completing Section 37, I was […]
The final section of the fuselage: yay! Here I am assembling and attaching the roll over structure. This structure will also be the dividing point between the aft canopy section and the forward canopy section. First, it was the usual gathering of parts (none left after this), deburring, cleco’ing, and uncleco’ing, and deburring, and then […]
Section 36 involves installing the elevator push rods as well as the control sticks. I am not installing the Aft Elevator Pushrod at this time mainly because the elevator is not installed yet. That will happen at a much later date. The first steps involved preparing the bellcranks acting as a pivot point for the […]
Section 35 was an interesting section because it allowed me to see the eventual shape of the cockpit area including the instrument panel placement. The usual process of selecting, separating, and deburring the parts was next. However, this time it also included painting any part that will be visible from the cockpit area. As I […]
The Fay's RV-14A N124KB 