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.



Thursday, July 14, 2011

Forward Fuselage HOBBS 738.0 hrs

Now that I have all of the fuselage cleco-ed together, my efforts are focused on getting the forward fuselage taken care of. Its a lot of match drilling support brackets, fabricating gussets, misc brackets, etc. Important stuff, this structure will carry the loads from the engine mount that will be installed later.


I thought the plans said to attach the side skins and bottom skin, but for the life of me I cant see how you can get to some of the required holes for drilling these brackets. There are a couple that I will drill later when I remove the side skins. But, here you can see the angle alum that I am match drilling to the side skin.


This was a tricky little gusset to fabricate, as you can see it has two very slight bends in opposite directions. As tricky as it was, thankfully it came out very nice, I think I got lucky. ;) I still have another one to do though.

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