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Jims RV-8
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Date: 12-26-2013
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference: 7-11
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Brief Description: Riveted the left aileron w/ Holden
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So, after I came back from Avery's and cleaned more leaves out of the pool - it was back to riveting the left aileron. I was able to rivet the top side and then as I was setting up the aileron for the pull rivets, Holden (my 20 year old son) came home from a pitching tune up session. I took the opportunity to ask him if he was ready to do some riveting. (Earlier this week, I had told him I would need him for some wing skin riveting while he was home from college) It was really neat to have him in the shop, "working". I handled the clecos, and plugging the rivets in the holes, and he pulled them. As we worked, we talked about school, baseball, rivets and life and it just kinda happened - and it has been my favorite shop session so far. It was a little, momentary slice of perfection, that is not planned but just happens. It took me back to the days when I helped Dad work on the cars - and we talked about cars, basketball, alternators and life. Thank you God, for those little moments of past mixed with the present - I feel that I have moved up a rung on the generational ladder and I am no longer on the bottom! After Holden finished pulling all of the blind rivets on the leading edge and bottom skin/spar - one of Holden's friends called him on the phone and he must have asked, "What are you doing?" ... because his reply was, "I'm helping my Dad build his airplane". I couldn't help the internal smile and thinking how that shop session was - Pretty stinkin' cool man...
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Holden - pulling rivets
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photo-op
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the finished pair of ailerons
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