Don Jones
Line Up and Wait
Finally got around to updating the website again. Lots of progress and starting to really look like airplane parts!
http://www.weflyforfun.com/news_2.html
http://www.weflyforfun.com/news_2.html
Finally got around to updating the website again. Lots of progress and starting to really look like airplane parts!
http://www.weflyforfun.com/news_2.html
You have done me a great service by posting your pictures and build history. I occasionally think about trying to build an RV (but a real one with the third wheel in the correct place) simply because many others have done so, none of whom work for NASA. Then I see what is involved for just part of the tail, and realize it is not meant to be. I would have spent another kit worth of money for spares and still not have anything to show. Please continue to post so I don't forget.
PS: Where are you really doing the work? Nobody's shop looks like that when they are building an airplane. Is this a trick?
AWESOME!! If you thought you were good at pounding rivets before, wait till you start putting the wing skins on. You'll have a whole new appreciation of a pneumatic rivet squeezer even for the few times you can actually use it.
Great looking project!!
I already have a love for the pneumatic squeezer. I find myself going out of my way to use it. I really hate the bucking bar/ rivet gun. Back riveting on the other hand is quick and easy. Bucking them isn't hard, the squeezer is just faster. Right now I am in the middle of putting the 1st fuel tank together. Riveting with the "Black Death" absolutely stinks. Again, it's not hard, just messy and slow.
You have done me a great service by posting your pictures and build history. I occasionally think about trying to build an RV (but a real one with the third wheel in the correct place) simply because many others have done so, none of whom work for NASA. Then I see what is involved for just part of the tail, and realize it is not meant to be. I would have spent another kit worth of money for spares and still not have anything to show. Please continue to post so I don't forget.
PS: Where are you really doing the work? Nobody's shop looks like that when they are building an airplane. Is this a trick?