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Match drill skins to spar

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Since I didn’t have all my priming stuff, I stopped to match drill the skin to the horizontal stabilizer rear spar.  In his video, George Orndorff mentioned that this may be easier to dimple the spar holes now rather than waiting.  This seemed like a good idea.

Start the Rear Spar

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

After several hours filing and sanding, father dropped in to help assemble the horizontal stabilizer rear spar.

Empennage Kit Ordered

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Finally faxed my order to Van’s for an RV-7 empennage kit today.  Will have to wait until Monday for order confermation.