Steevo's RV14a Build Log

Lower Gear Brace   ( 3 hrs ) Completed Steps 2 & 3 at Sect 29-03 for Lower Gear Brace installation (Tri Gear build) .  Tight clearance...

Lower Gear Braces ( 2 hrs ) I'm back from visiting my brother in hospital in Seattle - he's making full recovery from a heart atta...

Tri Gear set up & Control Column adjusted ( 2 hrs ) Nancy again helped rivet:  at 4 places adjacent to Step Mounts for fuselage specif...

Tri Gear set up for QB Fuselage ( 3 hrs ) Continued setting up QB Fuselage as Tri Gear following QBF-2 instructions.   Step 12: drilled ...

Gear Leg Openings ( 2 hrs ) Cut out and smoothed Gear Leg Openings in bottom of Fuselage: Step 3, 7-9 at Sec 26-10 for Tri Gear builder.  ...

Control Column Assembly shims ( 3 hrs ) Tried again to measure total gap to be filled on both sides.  Targeted .098 and .074 to fill measu...

Correcting Shims at Control Column Assly ( 4 hrs ) Back to building after quick adventure flying to Kansas City with Nancy and I taking tu...