I am a little behind in these posts so I will try to pick up here where I left off about a month ago. The Bellcrank ribs were attached to the forward bulkhead (relative to the Aft Fuselage) with the other end being riveted to the larger side frame bulkhead. At this point it was […]
I was excited about this section because it seems that here is where real airplane parts start. Yeah I know tail feathers are real airplane parts but getting started on the fuselage seems like an airplane shape is about to take shape. But that didn’t last long because I was immediately faced with my favorite […]
Wow, finally done. I never expected this to take so many hours, and I look back, and I am not sure why it took so long. 67 out of 172 hours total so far was spent on both elevators. Not sure what I am looking at timewise with the Aft Fuselage. Perhaps just as much […]
After returning from Oshkosh, I was finally able to resume work on N124KB. The elevator continues to have many steps and details which seems to make progress very slow. But I am getting there… Most of these sections covered here involved riveting the skins to the ribs, attaching the ribs together, and then riveting the […]
Just a quick update before I take about 10 days off. I am headed to Oshkosh for the EAA AirVenture this weekend so it will be a while before I pound rivets again. This section was finishing up the spars before the skins were attached. First the Tip ribs had their skins attached, the rear […]
Since I last left you guys, it has been 2 weeks, and it doesn’t seem like I have done anything. However, adding up the hours since the last post, it was 25 hours of work. So something must have happened. The elevator has so many steps that it takes a while to get any sort […]
After researching the amount of time that others are taking to complete the RV-14, and taking into account my average time per day, I decided to put together the below gant chart. This gives me a new fly date of November 2022. This depends on a lot of things and I reserve the right to […]
As predicted, this section appears to be more complicated. But so far, it is more fun. There are a bunch of individual steps to complete the elevator, and I will have to grind through all of them. This section didn’t waste any time diving into deburring. In this case it was the elevator ribs. First […]
I think these last few sections of the HS illustrated to me the amount of work this airplane will take to complete. While being only a few pages in the plans, there were a lot of individual steps to complete in order for me to come out of the garage with a completed horizontal stabilizer. […]
Looking forward through the Instructions, it is quite evident that every section to come gets progressively more complicated. I will look back at the previous sections and think those are a cakewalk compared to what is to come. Pulling the parts off the shelf for the Horizontal Stabilizer, it was immediately apparent that my “EAA […]
The Fay's RV-14A N124KB 