Monday, September 06, 2010 -
Howdeeeeee! I'm building an RV-9A from
Van's Aircraft.
Take your shoes off and sit a spell. Give me a holler
if ya' got questions or ya' just wanna chew the fat about RV's.
11/10/2005 - Finished the stiffeners for the Right Elevator The skin on the these elevators is suprisingly thin like the rudder skin. It amazing how fast things firm up as you add the reinforcement parts, such as the stiffeners. ... read more
11/18/2005 - Final drilled the #40 holes on the E-615PP reinforcing bracket Here I clecoed on the E-615PP reinforcing bracket in every other hole and then marked the open holes with a sharpie. After drilling the marked holes and moved the the clecos and finished final drillin ... read more
11/30/2005 - Clecoed the spar and end rib to the right elevator skin The instructions say to cleco the spar to the bottom surface of the elevator skin, then clamp and drill the Control Horn to the spar and rib where they were riveted together. ... read more
12/6/2005 - Riveted the counterbalance assembly to the front spar I used my pneumatic rivet squeezer to put in the outside rivets that attached the counterbalance ribs to the main spar. But the inside rivets were a little trickier. I used my hand squeezer with the 4 ... read more
12/23/2005 - Started working on the right elevator trailing edge Nice to get back to work. Things got really busy around here in the past 2 weeks. Here I final drilled the trailing edge through the pre-drilled holes in the top of the elevator skin through the wedge ... read more
12/26/2005 - Time for Proseal! (yuck) I ordered the Proseal tube from Vans. It comes with a black push rod for pushing the black stuff info the white stuff for mixing and a clear screw-in nozzle for dispensing. The instructions have NO PI ... read more
1/1/2006 - Installed the Rod End Bearings on the Right Elevator The instructions jumped right into mounting the right elevator to the horizontal stabilizer so you can drill the hole in the Wd-605 elevator horn for the bolt that attaches the horn to the center brac ... read more
The "cover your butt" section
This website was built to document my work on my RV-9A in
compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by
no means to be considered as instructions on how to build an RV-9A or any other aircraft.
