Martin Leroux - Experimental Aircraft Builder's Log

Martin's Aircraft Factory RV-8


Date: 7-18-2016
Number of Hours: 1.00
Manual Reference: DWG 73
Brief Description: Fuselage - Tail wheel Weldment Install

On this Monday, I was quite motivated to do a lot on the RV-8. When I showed up at the shop in the afternoon, my Dad was showing my project to one of his customer. Daniel Tassé is an aircraft homebuilder who built Zenair aircraft in the past. He remained with me in the shop for at least a good 2 hours. During that time, we obviously talked about experimental aircraft a lot. I went for dinner and came back to the shop in the evening. As soon as I arrived, my Dad came again with another visitor. More airplane and automobile talks.... Well, around 9PM, I could actually start working peacefully on my aircraft ! I started working on fitting the Tailwheel weldment on the bulkhead F811 per instruction. Removed the bottom skin F828, then the F812 bulkead and the tailwheel weldment. Made some alignment marks on F811 bulkhead, then that was it for the night.

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