Last week my friend and fellow RV8 builder Bryan Raley stopped by for a visit. http://bryansrv8project.blogspot.com/ He attended the "Sheet Metal Assembly" EAA SportAir class the same weekend I did the composites class. So, he is raring to get started on his RV8 empennage. I suggested he stop by my shop for a tour. When I told Samira, she kind of chuckled, "oh so now you're the expert huh?" I laughed and said, "far from it, but its amazing how much I have learned already in just 125 hrs of experience." Can you imagine what it'll be like when this thing flies? Maybe, just maybe, I will be some kind of expert by then! :)So anyway I wanted to point out some things that tripped me up in my building...show him my mistakes so hopefully he can avoid them in his build. Go over some confusing parts on the prints, etc. I also wanted to show him how I had my shop set up, my tools, my painting/etching/alodining process and other misc process stuff. It was a good visit, we spent a couple hrs talking RV's and tossing back a couple brewski's in the process. Does it get any better than that??!
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