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Terrible news! I never met him personally but chatted several times via email. Always very helpful and encouraging. You can almost build an RV10 with the instruction on his site alone.

I am working on the left wing and am to the point where I need to drill the holes for the snap bushings for pulling wires. I want to do this BEFORE I put the ribs on the spar to rivet. The question is ...

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Called Van's and they did not hesitate, flatten out the lightening hole where it obstructs the bracket.

Can't wait to get home and literally knock it out.

Everything is right except the lightening hole interferes with the bracket. I have been told that the best solution is to remove the bend in the lightening hole where it interferes. I am going to call ...

My dad is good friends with Walt Cunningham (Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot). We had lunch today and he came by to check the progress on my RV-10. Alas he says it is not fit for space travel.

I am at the step:

"Cleco the assembly to the upper and lower flanges of the W-1010-R Inboard Wing Rib as shown in Figure 5. (The support brackets Cleco into the forth and fifth holes back from ...

I am green with envy. Congo Rats

I think the issue is that the box the empennage came in is NOT on a pallet. The forklift operator has to get under the box with the forks. To keep from skidding the box, he has to have some momentum a ...

Well my empennage arrived on Friday. When I did the inventory on Friday night, I found where they had put a fork lift fork through the top of the box and bent the HS skins. I am not sure if it is repa ...

Says $190k in the text. Must be a typo.

Nice.... and I am planning out secure rivet storage....

Houston gets another 10 builder!! I am looking for any gottchas that I may have missed, modifications I should do as I build, tricks of the trade, and any other advise you guys can throw my way.

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