December 7 , 2006
Not much to report. Christmas is near, finals are next week. Last night I dropped my fuel tanks off at Orval's. Hopefully he can make some progress on them. I think that is wishful thinking since he has some projects of his own like a complete restoration of an old Ford tractor as well as getting the AcroSport he build back flying; we'll see. One plus, he doesn't have school or job to obstruct him. Both wings have their top skin riveted. I need to rivet the leading edge ribs to the spare; this is another out of order process. As I've read from others; the rivets are had to pound with the rib being so close. The question is, "should I use Cherrymax rivets?"
Oh, I almost forgot to mention my new wing craddle. Sebastian Trost, a really cool NorCal builder, drove all the way from Cameron Park to give me his wing craddle. He just finished an RV-7.