RV-4 build log: HS skin

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Riveting HS skin

Dimpled the HS skins and started riveting them.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Deburring, deburring and dimpling

Deburred the skin and skeleton. Primed the skin and dimpled the skeleton.

Monday, March 22, 2010

More HS skin

Measured and started drilling the other side.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

HS skin drilled

One skin drilled on. The other one is ready for drilling.

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.