RV-4 build log: Aft spar HS

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Aft spar HS

Drilled the aft spar. Due to using the old HS-409, the hinge brackets need to be positioned at the same time.

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Hey Dude. Spennene lesning! Tror jeg forsto "skin" problematikken... Håper det du klarer å få skrudd sammen riktig denne gangen uten å få vridning i skjelettet :-); February 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Unknown said...: Hey Dude. Spennen teknisk lesning! Tror jeg forsto "skin" problematikken... Håper du får skrudd sammen skjelettet i riktig fasong denne gangen :-); February 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM

Why?

For some reason people very seldom ask why I want to build an airplane, but they very often ask where. When I tell them, they immediately ask how I am going to get it out of there when it's finished...

Anyway, the real question to answer is probably why an RV-4 instead of some other plane. You just don't wake up one morning and say, "aha, it has to be an RV-4". Well, that was exactly what happened to me. I have always wanted to build real airplanes. I have looked at lots of kits, tried several finished ones, made large excel sheets, on and off for several years. Then I woke up one Saturday morning, everything was crystal clear, and the order for an RV-4 was sent to Van's before 10 AM the same day.

In hindsight, things like value, performance and so on can be brought up, and the RV-4 will come out among the best. But the truth is that some things in life has very little to do with logics and excel sheets.