Victoria is always ready to lend a helping hand when she can!

After about 350 hours of work, we're ready to come out of the jig.

Here's the fuselage on the gear for the first time!

Yes, you CAN fit an RV-6A into the back of a Suburban! This is how we got the fuselage to Edwards for the Open House.

Our fuselage and the B-2, Edwards AFB Open House, 1997

We have started our panel (April 98') and it's REALLY exciting!

I finally cut the radio stack and have fitted a Garmin Skymap II. Additional avionics will include a Garmin SL-40 Comm and King-76A Transponder.

You too can have this box delivered to your home.....cost.....about $100/week for the next four years! As you can see, the canopy was fitted this summer.

After drilling the rear spar bolts for both wings, we removed one wing and left the other one in place. I'm now working on fuel line plumbing, fuselage/tank attach, flaps, ailerons....we'll reverse the fuselage and repeat the process later on.

We now have the fuselage sideways in the garage (November 98'). Both wings were installed and we set the wing incidence/sweep.

3 RV builders, using 3 digital levels, spent 6 hours to drill the 2 rear spar holes! Sable and Lacey sat patiently for this picture.

Here's the latest panel picture of our fully wired/operational VFR panel.

This pencil drawing by Mike Fowler is the (only) template used while painting. Mike gave us about 10 different schemes (all sideviews as above) to choose from. The purple checkerboard was overlayed on the gray ribbon on May 3, 2000.

All colors were Ford except for the Lexus Pearl White. Personally, I'm a GMC fan but Ford had nicer colors!

I can't thank my 'Boeing Painter' brother Michael and his painter friends Mike Fowler & Wally Wallace enough for the amount of work they got done over 3 days and about 45 hours of labor! Michael's been waiting almost 5 years for 'his turn' to work on the plane!

The plane was moved to the Nemesis Hangar at Mojave Airport for final assembly on May 13th, 2000. MANY more thanks to Jon & Tricia Sharp for letting us share hangar space with their Reno-Racer Nemesis ;-)

Our plane was signed off as airworthy by the FAA a month after arriving to the airport, on June 13th. Friend and Test pilot Norm Howell flew our first flight on Father's Day, June 18, 2000. I realized my dream with my first flight on July 4th, 2000.

Keep poundin' them rivets: It's ALL worth it!

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