I enjoy it enough to justify spending $10k on the tools and the first kit, but probably not enough to spend another $40k if I'm not going to fly in the next 10 years. Extruded angle for longerons and stiffeners. All fuselage bulkheads and ribs are press-formed. For the RV-8/8A, RV-10, RV-12 and RV-14/14A the spar intersection is included as part of the fuselage kit. Stop spending money on sheet aluminum and use it instead to rent and fly a Cirrus from the local club.ĭon't get me wrong, I enjoy building it. All skins are supplied accurately sheared and formed. I'm at a stage where I need to make the next decision. Basically, I'm looking for the multipliers - if it takes 1 year to build the empennage, it will take X years to build the wings, Y years for the fuselage, and Z years for finishing. I know that both of my ways to estimate are the extremes and probably not very close to reality, but I wasn't able to find the breakdown here. And that also doesn't include any firewall-forward work. How should I look at the future kits? Should I assume it'll take me roughly a year to build each kit? Or should I rather think in terms of how big the kit is? Considering the empennage costs $4,325, while the wing kit is $11,450, should I plan to spend 2.5 years building the wings? Continuing with this logic, Wing, Fuselage, and Finishing come to 10.5 years left to build. My rough estimate, by May this year I should be finished with the empennage kit or very close. is a web page dedicated to the construction and flying of my RV14A, the second airplane that Ive built, through the extraordinary kits produced by Vans Aircraft. Just need to rivet the trailing edges and then the trim tabs, which are also partially done already (bent, horns riveted, spar riveted on one side). I'm getting close to finishing the elevators. So I started building my empennage last May.
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