Ron's RV7 Factory: Where?

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, February 27, 2009

Where do you build an airplane such as this? Well, believe it or not, about 95% of it will be done in my 2 car garage at my house. The plane is built in sub-kits: empennage (or tail), wings, fuselage and a finishing kit at the end. Each sub-section can actually be built in a one car garage, (although I'm happy to have the 2 car version) then stored until final assembly. Once its time for final assembly at the end of the project, it will be moved to a hangar for final preperation for its test flights. So, the last couple of months of my spare time have been devoted to transforming my uninviting garage into an 'airplane factory' and just make it more comfortable since it will be my home away from home for the next 2-ish years. Painting, building work benches, organizing, hanging aviation posters, etc, basically turning it into my aviation 'clubhouse'! I will post pics of this when I'm done in a later blog so check back to see how it turns out.