The past week was back to the fuselage, which meant a whole bunch of deburring, and deburring and deburring. Quick update on the fuselage progress.

With temperatures dropping, and fuel tank sealing on the horizon, I need to find a way to heat up an area for sealant application. See what I came up with in this post. And what is Kaizen Foam you ask? You got it! Also in this post.

Wednesday night was spent catching up with friends, and supporting fellow builders Paul and Kacy as they near completion on their RV-7!

Less than 24 hours until the wing kit arrives. It’s time to do final clean up and prep for a whole bunch of parts to organize!

The parts finally came in to finish the air system. And the final countdown to wing kit arriving has begun. I’ve got a delivery date!

It was finally time to build the first of the practice kits…or was it? Looks like there was more to do before getting to the kit!

With the days to delivery ticking down, I tackled a few outstanding punchlist items, and then made some serious progress on the air system.

Continuing progress on the air system, today we started mounting sub-assemblies and air piping to the walls. Jess helped with a little caulking activity as well!

In build day 1 of the air system, I did some detailed planning and started assembling some of the complex regulator and valve sub-assemblies.

Started working on my third bench. This one will be smaller and be the location for the bandsaw and drill press.