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Mile Stone
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:36 am
by Gregg Swartley
Last night I had a buddy from work stop over and help me do some riveting on the Fuselage. He wound up staying for 4 hours and we finished riveting the Fuselage to the piont where we rolled the canoe.
I'm busy toinight, but as soon as I have the time I'm gonna put in the seat pans and a back rest to get in and play pilot!
I now know what all the hype is about with this milestone and I gotta say the smile has been on all morning. I can't wait till I fly this thing I'm sure the smile will stay for much longer.
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:45 am
by Spike
Congratulations!! Way to go!
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:09 am
by cjensen
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:25 am
by fly_guy_870
Congrats on the progress!! Like CJ said, need some pics!
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:26 pm
by Bob Barrett
Keep at it. We now have 70.3 hours on the hobbs of my RV-6A and it has been well worth it!!!!
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:03 am
by BSwayze
As someone who recently rolled the canoe on my own project, I know how it feels. Congrats!!
Like others have said, how about some pics? Also, what model RV are you building?
Pictures
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:34 pm
by Gregg Swartley
OK here you are some pictures to please you.
Hope you like them cause I love them. even the last one.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gregg.swart ... gTheCanoe#
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:59 am
by RobDob
Great shots!
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:39 am
by Spike
Niiiice!
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:10 pm
by dons
Congrats! and nice pictures. I like the portable drawing holder too, very convenient place when the bottom of the fuselage was facing up.
Drawing Holder
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:03 am
by Gregg Swartley
Thanks. the drawing holder was easy to build and portable. I made it from 1X2s and used large binder clips to secure the prints to it. Take off the handle of the clips on the front side and fold the rear side over and the prints flip over to view the ones below.
Quick, Easy, and Convient.
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:57 pm
by BSwayze
Nice pics, Greg! I especially liked the last one with you and your wife trying it on for size. I'll be doing that soon with my wife, but I want to finish the seat backs first. Can't wait!
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:38 am
by Gregg Swartley
Bruce,
I thought about waiting to get in untill more stuff was in like seatbacks, panel and maby rudder pedals. but every day I was going to work or just out I had to walk by the plane just sittin beggin me to get in. couple day pass and I cannot resist told the wife I was going to wait for her to sit in it with me and we went down for a sit. Put a blanket on the seats and plop down for a while. I had no idea what she did untill I looked at the pictures.
