John’s RV-10 N798HJ

Well I am moving right along on the wings now and need to as my fuselage ships at the end of December. I started the install of my pitot tube mount. I am going with the Gertz heated pitot tube as I hope to have an IFR capable aircraft. The only part of my tanks that I had to patch of when pressure testing was the nut holding the vent line to the inner most rib. I forgot to hit it with some proseal on the inside. I am currently looking into lighting options for my wings and tail. There are so many choices, but I am really leaning towards LED lights for the wing tips and strobes and maybe HIDs for the wing tips as landing lights. We will see how the money is and keep looking at options.

Well I have been working hard on the wings now and here are the results.  I hope to start the tanks in the next few days.  I am sure this will be a huge mess, but should be fun none the less.  I am really happy with the way the wings are looking.  I have had a good bit of help from my mother and another builder that lives down the street from me.  The wings have been drawing a lot of attention to the garage and now I get interrupted more than I used to, but I just love talking about flying and building so it does not seem to matter much.  Well back to pounding those rivets, don’t forget to check my Builders Log for day to day updates on the build.

So I thought the summer would bring me long hours of building bliss.  My first problem was I waited to long to order the wings so I did nothing for over a month.  Next life came in to the picture and my job started to take up all my free time (even cut in to my cycling!).  The last two weeks were spent doing family vacations that I planed on spreading out, but work forced them to collapse in to a two week time period and now summer is over.  I did get some work done on the wings, I have all the ribs attached to the left spar and am about to put all the ribs on the right spar.  I hope to build the wing cradles this weekend and get the rear spars started.  I can’t wait to get some skins on these things so people can tell what they are.  I am looking in to lighting solutions and autopilot servos as well as a heated pitot tube as I will need all this before I can close up the wings.  I ordered some corrugated tubing from Vans to run the wires in the wings and drilled the holes to 3/4″.  I hope to get the tubing this week so I can get it installed as well.