First Flight N45678!

[splitty]

Beautiful Finish to a Beautiful Aircraft Inside and Out!!

[Azemon]

Beautiful. Great job. Must feel tremendous!!

Andy

[rvdave]

Nice job, wondered if everything turned out for you as planned, would you do anything different, are you happy with the headliner you laid up-- any tips on that?

[txaviator]

SUPER nice paint job! (edit: and I just looked at your blog- you painted it outdoors? Incredible!)

Congrat's!

[Wesael]

Originally Posted by txaviator

SUPER nice paint job! (edit: and I just looked at your blog- you painted it outdoors? Incredible!)

Congrat's!

Yeh we did it outside.

Here was the plan:

We can sand a unacceptable finish and repaint in way less time than it takes me to build a makeshift paint booth. Also I have helped paint several rv's in makeshift paint booths and still had to repaint so I felt that this would be a good gamble.

We waited till a fairly strong cold front came through with rain that cleared the air and then cooled off enough so that it was cold enough to keep the bugs down (55 deg or less) in the mornings.

We tried to spray the base coats the evening prior and then lay the clear on first thing in the mornings before it got windy and warm.

Did not quite follow this plan because of problems here and there but we made it ok with repainting a few pieces.

Remember "painting is a series of disasters" ------ Joe Spencer.

[Wesael]

Originally Posted by rvdave

Nice job, wondered if everything turned out for you as planned, would you do anything different, are you happy with the headliner you laid up-- any tips on that?

The headliner turned out great! Yes defiantly would do it again. Makes it look so much more cozy. Just take your time at it. If you don't like it redo it. If you still don't like it REDO IT! That's what I did.

It's not how good you are at it.....it's how willing are you to redo it?

[Wesael]

Just finished Phase I on the "School Bus".

Has been a fun ride. Now gotta go back to work and pay for all that AvGas

[flybill7]

Congrats! Beautiful plane. I like the grass runway.

[sportpilot]

Good job weasel, there is no greater thrill on this planet than building and flying a RV10. God awful great photos.

[bill@fusion4.net]

Wow that seems like a quick phase 1.

I have not done a lot of research yet into how people usually do their test phase flyoff. How long was your average flight? Do you de-cowl and inspect between every flight, or just do a more standard preflight?

Did you find any problems during phase 1?