Hi,
I'll be starting my RV-7 empennage in May. I scratch built a Sonex in my basement, and was able to mate the empennage to the fuselage and still get the tail out the door (6' wide door) by turning the tail/fuselage 45 deg. The diagonal distance of the door was more than the distance across the horizontal stab.
My experience has been the longer I can keep the project at home (an in the basement), the more likely it is to get done in a reasonable time.
But the RV stab is longer and won't fit through that door (not possible to make it larger). So I'm wondering if it's possible to leave the mating of the empennage until very late in the process. Like getting the fuselage, canopy, and firewall forward nearly complete before moving it out of the basement and attaching the tail.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. And if anyone else did something similar, could you point me to their web page or blog, if one exists?
Thanks,
I'll be starting my RV-7 empennage in May. I scratch built a Sonex in my basement, and was able to mate the empennage to the fuselage and still get the tail out the door (6' wide door) by turning the tail/fuselage 45 deg. The diagonal distance of the door was more than the distance across the horizontal stab.
My experience has been the longer I can keep the project at home (an in the basement), the more likely it is to get done in a reasonable time.
But the RV stab is longer and won't fit through that door (not possible to make it larger). So I'm wondering if it's possible to leave the mating of the empennage until very late in the process. Like getting the fuselage, canopy, and firewall forward nearly complete before moving it out of the basement and attaching the tail.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. And if anyone else did something similar, could you point me to their web page or blog, if one exists?
Thanks,