Welcome to my build site for my Van’s Aircraft RV-9A. Please look around and check out my progress below! I’ve included two pictures to show my progress. The green areas are complete, while the blue is in progress.
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Riveting the Wing Skins
So now that the fuel tank and leading edge is on the wing, now it is time to add the top skins. We started with the inboard top skin and wing walk doubler. In the first picture below you can see five ribs very close to each other. The large number of ribs in a…
Finishing Leading Edges and Creating the Front of the Wing
Now that the tanks are finished, time to rivet the leading edges so they can be added to the spars. Most of the work was already completed before the leading edges were primed. They were just clecoed back in place, and then riveted. This went pretty easily, and next it is on to putting the…
The Tank Continues
So the tank was almost ready for testing. The last major part to put on was the back baffle. This is really tricky because there are several ribs which all have to line up. Once everything is lined up, the side of the baffle is riveted to the tank skin. The last step was to…
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