RV-7 Wing/Emp Shed

[Draker]

With the fuselage kit still in its box and the mostly-finished wings taking up 1/2 my garage, it was finally time to move those puppies out of the way. After reading some ideas here, and considering things like strapping them to the garage ceiling, I ended up deciding to build a shed for them in the backyard, and it turned out great. It is 6 feet wide by 12 feet long, and fits both wings in their cradle, the horizontal stabilizer, both elevators, the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and all the various fiberglass ends that I haven't yet installed.

I had a pretty narrow backyard, so I had to plan a bit. The foundation would be two pressure treated skids on top of gravel:



Child labor and animal labor always helps:



Floor framing done:



3/4" thick tongue and groove for the floor should support the weight:



Raising the first wall:



Walls framed and sheathed, and roof is done:



Found shingles that matched the ones on my house!



Hinges screwed into the siding. I plan to remove them later when I trim around the door and screw the hinges through the trim too. Later...

[Draker]

Now to get everything in there. Horizontal stabilizer is secured to two 2x4s between the long wall frame via nylon straps:



Vertical stabilizer mounted to the rear framing. It rests on this piece of 2x4 secured to the framing with two 1/2" dowels (glued) a bit of steel angle, and the nylon strap. At this point the nylon does not actually hold the spar, it just prevents it from falling off:



The top of the VS hangs on another dowel, and then the whole thing is bungee corded in place for good measure:



By some miracle (measuring many, many times) everything just barely fits!



I now have a fully empty garage available to start working on the canoe. Build on...

[Wunderon]

very tidy