May 19-21, 2020 Stewart transport showed up in a fancy truck with a few airplanes in the back of it. We only got to keep one unfortunately. The truck was too big to get right up to our garage, but there was a convenient parking lot only 1/4 mi from the house. The plan for... Continue Reading →
April 27-30, 2020 We finally got word that the QB wings and fuselage made it to Van's factory!! They're getting a quality inspection and then they'll get shipped down to us. In order to be ready to receive them, we needed to build some cradles to hold them. Doing some research of the forums and... Continue Reading →
March 13, 2020 We're still waiting on the replacement stiffener for the horizontal stab from Van's, in the mean time it's time to build a priming booth. We gathered supplies from Lowe's, two 12 x 50' rolls of plastic, a couple 10 x 12 sheets, a box fan, and some wide blue painter's tape. First,... Continue Reading →
Since neither of us have much experience working with sheetmetal and rivets we decided to order all three practice kits available from Vans and sign up for an EAA SportAir workshop on sheetmetal basics. We agreed that we'd attend the workshop prior to doing any work on the airplane parts. However, the practice kits arrived... Continue Reading →
We received the first package from Vans which was the material for horizontal and vertical!! This is a hugely exciting for us, so much so that when FedEx didn't deliver on Saturday we drove half an hour to the depot to collect them ourselves. Unfortunately, the first shipment showed up only a couple days after... Continue Reading →
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