RV-10 #42122

[jaymark6655]

I've been lurking since 2015, never posted. Started building my RV-10 on March 10, 2022. Figured I probably should be more active considering how much I read threads here and that I am actually building now. Currently 361.7 hours into the build and working on the wings. Since the start I've documented my build on my YouTube channel:

and I have a build log that I made for Excel:

RV-10 Build Tracker.xlsx

Time DAY,DATE,TASK/STEP,TASK TYPE,TIME,TOTAL TIME,Rivets Installed,Total Rivets,Video Link,Total Time By Type 11/30/2019,Order Tools,Admin,1.0,1.0,0,0,N/A,Admin,Prep,Build,Total,AVG HR/DAY,Projected Finish Date,Note: Projected finish date based on average build time worked per day so far. 1/10/2020

docs.google.com

Feel free to drop by, watch a few on the more interesting videos, comment, leave a thumbs up, or subscribe. Currently, I have 58 videos up on just the build and several more waiting to be edited. I was planning to build quicker, but I am also working on my Masters in Mechanical Engineering.

Yesterday I just finished making by second pair of Long Wingbox J-stiffeners. I really wish that the plans didn't use the word nest in the direction. Overlap would have been a much better word choice. Also, wish I had read the Gotchas page for Tim Olsen's build. At least I seem to be in good company with several other builder/owners who have done the exact same thing. I'll post some pictures later.

 

[jaymark6655]

This is from March 2020, we borrowed a truck and picked up the empennage from the local airport. If the truck went to my house, the shipping company wanted it to have a lift gate and charged extra. Also, the airport had a forklift in case we needed it. We backed the truck up to the shipping truck and carried the crate into the back of the pickup. I bought furniture dollies in case I over estimated how much weight the four of us could lift.


Man I miss long bed trucks.


At the house, we just picked it up and placed on the furniture dollies so I could move it around by myself as needed.


So it begins. I am not sure my son completely understood what he was looking at and what it would become.

 

[jaymark6655]

March 14,2020: I clecoed the skin to the vertical stabilizer. For the first time something looks like an airplane part.



Ten days later, March 24, I finished the part and took a obligatory part finished celebration photo with my kids.


They helped build the EAA tables, even let them operate the miter saw (keeping both hands on the handle) while I held the wood for them. For the stabilizer, they helped measure pieces, remove the blue vinyl, and installed and removed clecos.

 

[DHerzTX87]

Those are some good helpers!

 

[jaymark6655]

Those are some good helpers!

They are great helpers and they love flying.

 

[jaymark6655]

I finished the rudder on day 50 and the elevators on day 53. I worked on both up to the proseal step so I could proseal both and the same time. Ex-wife (at the time she wasn't), kids, and parents were involved with these. It was great having someone to cleco while I put the proseal on, allowing me to focus just on mixing, applying, and clean up.

 

[jaymark6655]

The first time the horizontal stabilizer looked like a complete part.


A cool inside picture to show my friends/coworkers what the internal structure looks like.