Bullseye
Well Known Member
Hello, everyone.
While patiently waiting until my RV-7 empennage gets ordered, I managed to join and attend EAA 1114's Novemeber meeting. Mitch Lock, Van's Aircraft East Coast Rep and builder of the very first RV-12 ESLA kit was there with the infamous "blue ship."
Mitch was a really nice guy, and explained a lot of things about the RV-12. A couple things of note:
Here's one picture, but check out my build log for more.
Ha, what a teaser photo...
While patiently waiting until my RV-7 empennage gets ordered, I managed to join and attend EAA 1114's Novemeber meeting. Mitch Lock, Van's Aircraft East Coast Rep and builder of the very first RV-12 ESLA kit was there with the infamous "blue ship."
Mitch was a really nice guy, and explained a lot of things about the RV-12. A couple things of note:
- 555 hours from first kit to first flight
- 65 hours for both wings to be completed.
- ?100 or so? holes to be drilled (almost all match-drilled)
- Most of the holes on the kit are prepunched to final size (no drilling, deburring, dimpling)
Here's one picture, but check out my build log for more.
Ha, what a teaser photo...