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.



Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Canopy Frame HOBBS 888.5 hrs

Here are some pics from last week's progress...I'm a little behind posting these. The next step in the instructions is mounting the wings. Since that will take two or three helpers and some rearranging in the shop I am putting this off for now until I can coordinate this. So, you'll notice I am out of sequence on most of these upcoming items. Shouldn't be a problem as they really aren't inter-related to each other at this point.


Doing the layout for the canopy frame. I came up with this as my spacing of rivets for the outer flange. Yours may vary depending on your starting/ending points...so don't just copy my figure without doing your calculations.



Match drilled in place...looking good. Although, at this point I realized that my inner strap came from the factory too short. d'oh! So, I will put this effort on pause while I contact Van's and get the right one ordered.


Getting my center panel ready for priming. Bent the heater louvers as instructed...kind of a pain, luckily its not very thick material.


I almost forgot, I had to add a cutout to my false floor panel for my fuel tank vents. I match drilled these from the bottom skin...sure doesn't look like it does it?? Kinda off for some reason? Oh well, you'll never see it when the carpet is installed later.

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