OldAndBold
Well Known Member
Congratulate me, for I now walk among those who have completed their horizontal stabilizers.
The sequence of events:
1) Buy the kit
2) Wait for kit to arrive
3) Transport kit to garage
4) Have pictures taken of me sitting in kit
5) Focus on getting PPL completed
6) Let kit sit in the garage for several months
7) Complete garage workshop
8) Take new job 2000 miles away
9) Move family to temporary home (several months)
10) Move kit cross country by UHaul truck to storage
11) Kit sits in storage several months
12) Move into new house
13) Move kit from storage to new house
14) Focus on trip to China to adopt new daughter
15) Make feeble attempt to start, get overwhelmed by details
16) Procrastinate by posting to aviation websites
17) Partially complete new basement workshop (several months)
18) Feel guilty about not spending enough time with the new daughter
19) Begin to realize that the wife will take care of the new child IF I just disappear into the basement
20) Begin again on empennage
21) Learn how to rivet
22) Learn how to drill out bad rivets
23) Break off bolts, post to website seeking help
24) Learn how to use torque wrench correctly
25) Get frustrated by the high cost of renting airplanes
26) Get frightened by the condition of rental aircraft
27) Commit to building the empennage
28) One weekend and two six packs of asian beer later
29) Completed Horizontal Stabilizer.
Pictures to follow.
--John Babrick
N777XV 7A QB HS Complete
The sequence of events:
1) Buy the kit
2) Wait for kit to arrive
3) Transport kit to garage
4) Have pictures taken of me sitting in kit
5) Focus on getting PPL completed
6) Let kit sit in the garage for several months
7) Complete garage workshop
8) Take new job 2000 miles away
9) Move family to temporary home (several months)
10) Move kit cross country by UHaul truck to storage
11) Kit sits in storage several months
12) Move into new house
13) Move kit from storage to new house
14) Focus on trip to China to adopt new daughter
15) Make feeble attempt to start, get overwhelmed by details
16) Procrastinate by posting to aviation websites
17) Partially complete new basement workshop (several months)
18) Feel guilty about not spending enough time with the new daughter
19) Begin to realize that the wife will take care of the new child IF I just disappear into the basement
20) Begin again on empennage
21) Learn how to rivet
22) Learn how to drill out bad rivets
23) Break off bolts, post to website seeking help
24) Learn how to use torque wrench correctly
25) Get frustrated by the high cost of renting airplanes
26) Get frightened by the condition of rental aircraft
27) Commit to building the empennage
28) One weekend and two six packs of asian beer later
29) Completed Horizontal Stabilizer.
Pictures to follow.
--John Babrick
N777XV 7A QB HS Complete
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