The empennage kit has arrived!! It’s quite impressive to think that it only took a few days to get from the Vans factory to my home in Scotland!
There was an intense moment when the delivery company had an issue with their truck, but luckily they managed to source another and deliver it just a couple of hours after the initially suggested.
With the help of a Neighbour and my son-in-law (and my grandson overseeing things) we offloaded the crate. It was actually lighter than we were all expecting, especially as the weight was noted as 115KG – 3 of us made light work of it, I suspect 2 would have been enough!
I wasted no time in opening the box, which introduced the first challenge of getting the steel straps off! In the end I used a Dremel to cut them as I just had nothing else that was strong enough.
The next 7 hours were spent on the inventory and sorting out the parts into sub-sections such as all the Elevator, Rudder, Horizontal Stabilizer etc so that I could easily find them when I needed them.
With that out the way, the plan is to identify which section I can begin with given there is backordered parts across lots of sections – guess I can probably focus on deburring and priming.
Building an RV-14A 