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, August 24, 2011

Re-rivet HOBBS 794.0 hrs

Last night I inspected all of my rivets from my last riveting session. I couldn't help but think I must have been smoking dope while I did that riveting! I'm embarrassed to say it was a poor performance. So, I spent some time carefully drilling out the 20-25 bad ones and redoing them. Problem solved. :)

I then proceeded to test fit the first side skin...the right side. I wanted to get one last look, make sure I had everything done before riveting. Good thing I did too, since there are a few small items I need to attend to. But I'll get those taken care of and the next session should be a riveting session as the first side skin is riveted in place. Cant wait.
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