Robert, Author at My Experimental Amateur Builds

RV-10 Rudder Rear Spar Cont. 1

Date: 07/22/2024 – Time: 4:00 hours Date: 07/23/2024 – Time: 2:30 hours I began by trimming the new 1014 R rear spar […]

Total work time: 3:20 Today, May 30th 2024 @11:50 a.m. is the official start time of my project building the RV-10. I […]

I spent the day today with a good friend Ted Ripp who is a CFII and owns a 172M with a 180HP […]

The image at the top of this post is the original scratch which happened during the inventory process of the empennage kit. […]

I spent most of the day yesterday doing the final drilling, dimpling and machine countersinking my last practice kit which is a […]

It’s a long story, the short version of which is that my wife has prevailed upon me to build a Zenith 750 […]

I am very pleased to report that I have received all the replacement parts I ordered from Vans. Vans replaced all the […]

Yesterday I received a very encouraging email from Vans Aircraft regarding the replacement of my laser cut parts. Please confirm your Van’s […]

Van’s Latest LCP Update email arrived this morning. I guess they were working over the weekend, that’s good to see. The bad […]

Van’s Aircraft LCP status updates appear to have stopped. Here are some more thoughts on my current situation. Fortunately, I am a […]