Ron's RV7 Aircraft Factory


Welcome to my personal blog. This site was created as an informal description of my build progress in the construction of a Van's RV7 aircraft. A place where family/friends/builders/curiosity seekers can follow along. It is not intended to be a detailed description of every step in the building process as that would be much too time consuming. There are plenty of sites that do a great job in that arena, that is not my intention with this site. My intention is for this to be a philisophical/motivational/inspirational account of the emotional ups and downs of the life changing journey...and it will change your life. I hope this will give you an idea, through my eyes, of what its like to make this transformation. A note to other builders, I am not an expert so do not put your safety at risk by attempting anything you see on this site until you have done your own research, or send me an email so we can discuss it. Any deviations from the plans are not approved, nor endorsed by Van's Aircraft or myself. Thanks for visiting.



Wednesday, March 23, 2011

More Wing Prep HOBBS 553.0 hrs

Here are a few shots from some misc wing prep we have been doing while the ProSeal sets up on my fuel tank fixes.


I forgot to add some 7/16" dia holes in the ribs for the snap-in grommets for the pitot line and the AOA. Other builders, you might want to plan for this before riveting your skeleton together. All of the ribs were easy to get to with my right angle drill except the the two center ones where the wingwalk doubler resides. After some discussion, we figured we could get this solved with a long drill bit. Well, shoot, Harbor Freight to the rescue once again. We found a set of 3 of these huge 24" long drill bits for $8. Problem solved, worked great. If anyone needs to borrow them, give me a call.



A shot of Dad building a bracket for the right ER tank fuel pump. He's giving the pneumatic rivet squeezer with my new longeron yoke a go. The squeezer takes a little getting used to when you first get started with it. But he did say he is a big fan of it, it is a nice tool.



Cutting my access holes for the ER tank...just mirrored what I did on the left wing.

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