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Week of April 29, 2012 18 hours. I worked alone this week and I am not sure where the time went. I ordered more tubing for the fuel pump (this is a FI plane so the pump and filter require … Continue reading →

3-12-2012 45 hours since last entry….I guess. Near the beginning of February I started bending the canopy frame. I’m building a slider RV-9A and this step of the build has been the hardest and most frustrating so far. Apparently every … Continue reading →

2-3-2012 14 hours since last entry….I guess. Every day except for one day I’ve been working on bending the slider frame. The object is to bend the frame so that it sits 1/4-3/8″ above the roll bar, the side rails … Continue reading →

1-24-2012 3.3 hours Most of my time was spent bending and grinding the slider frame. I now have the rails very close, I think. I ground the front tubes down and the front bow is essentially parallel to the roll … Continue reading →

1-22-2012 – 4.9 Hours The session started with mounting the roll bar. It’s a bit putty trying to bolt the roll bar in but it is possible with a little tweaking. The roll bar is supposed to be perpendicular to … Continue reading →

1/20/2012 – 3.2 Hours Picking up where I left off yesterday, I drilled the pilot holes out to full size in both the fuselage and the roll bar and made the funky shims that help clamp the roll bar to … Continue reading →

January 19, 2012 – 2.1 hours I finished riveting the aft fuselage. There were perhaps 50 rivets that Steve and I did not get to and these are done. I also did some evaluation of the work we did and … Continue reading →

…but not very many entries. Sorry about that but I think my readership amounts to two people and mostly I am keeping this up to document, for the FAA, that I built this plane. So here’s what’s been happening. My … Continue reading →

11/26/11 3.6 hours Finished the fuel tank vents, except for installing one more adel clamp on each side and screening the forward facing vents. Next I drilled the brake line exit holes next to the gear leg exit hole. Worked … Continue reading →

11/22/11 2.5 hours Installed the four brake cylinders on the rudder pedals. This amounted to positioning the pedals, installing the top of the cylinder and then drilling the bottom hole in place. Pretty simple actually.