The first two and a half were easy. Blind rivets - not too much can go wrong. The third frame, however, has a very beefy structure on top....

The tough slog of preparing tail cone skins is finally done! The next step, which I had been deferring because the "full scale" dr...

... so to speak. There's not a lot of variety to this part of the job. Grab a skin from the shelf, remove the blue vinyl, deburr the h...

In the ultimate case of barn door closure in a post-equine escape scenario, I decided to do a little more research on the topic of edge brea...

I can only imagine what a bad day at the office for a plastic surgeon might be like: "You wouldn't believe how many tail skins I...

It's been awhile since I've worked on the RV-12, primarily due to competing demands from my other (still broken!!) airplane and a sm...