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| Construction begins, note the
tables and storage racks made to provide workspace and stay organized..
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 Freshly painted rear seatback
gets positioned. I
installed my floor panels with LOTS of platenuts instead of blind rivets to make
the rear floor removable.
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| A batch of parts just shot
with PPG Delta. The
windscreen bar and rear grab bar will be blue to accent the gray
interior. On the right is a close-up of metallic blue
paint that will also be a part of the exterior paint scheme.
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| The panel takes shape. It was drawn first in Visio, printed it on transparency material, and laid it on the panel for cutting. | ||||||||||||
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| July 26th, 2003, after five years four months of construction, N184TJ took flight. Below is one of my first landings. Typical of RV-8s, it wants to make a tail-low wheel landing... | ||||||||||||
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