A fundamental change of things

The RV-4 will be put on hold for some time. I have just ordered a Onex kit. The reasons for this are:

• The RV-4 takes too long, I want to have a flying aircraft. To get a flying aircraft from where I stand today is faster and cheaper with a Onex kit. Work and other things in life takes too much time for me to be able to finish the RV-4 in a reasonable time frame right now, and I'm not getting any younger. The Onex is about an order of magnitude faster too build than the RV-4.
• I have no hangar space.
• I want to use Mogas.
• When the Onex is finished, I can continue to build the RV-4, hopefully with a ULPower engine that runs on mogas.
• And of course, I just love the Onex, a single seater aerobatic airplane with a VW engine. Nothing can beat the charm of that.

So, the Onex is simply a faster, cheaper and much more certain route to a flying airplane. An inevitable effect of this is that instead of building one aircraft, I am building two. Is that a wise thing? probably not, but then again, the process of building just a single airplane in your home/garage is not what you would define as a wise thing to do. Twice as much fun.

I have made a separate blog for the Onex here.  

And there was light

The new shop is finished. Took a new panorama shot with the lights.

Shop starting to look like a shop

Only lights remains. Took a panorama shot.