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.



Friday, July 8, 2011

Mid Fuse Done HOBBS 725.0 hrs

Last night I finished up riveting the mid fuse assembly...or at least as far I can go with it for now. There are a couple areas that will be riveted later. Now its time to attach the mid fuse to the aft fuse and make a canoe...very exciting! But first...I need to build a fuse stand of some kind. To attach the two you need, at the very least three sawhorses. And I'm not crazy about putting my fuse on three wobbly sawhorses...not stable enough for my taste. So, this weekend I will tackle that...as you might guess, I've pretty anxious for this. :)


Again, I was able to rivet this assembly solo...it took every inch of my relatively long arms to reach the rivets in the center but I pulled it off somehow. I just went slow and took my time. I did all of this riveting in three work sessions...riveting by yourself...stretching, grunting and groaning...wears a guy out. ;) Here you can see the progress before I carefully turned it over onto the other side for better access to the remaining rivets.


And here are a couple shots of a finished assembly. The corner brackets where the cleco's remain will be riveted later per the plans. Cool eh?

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