![]() ![]() ![]() You don’t avoid mistakes later, you just reduce them. You learn the machinery in your workshop – and the value of the things you didn’t buy at first, like the scotchbrite abrasive wheel – and you avoid making mistakes later. This is, it turns out, a good plan… it’s almost like they’ve thought about it as they go! By starting with those bigger bits you get the hang of riveting “on the flat” before you have to do the trailing edges of anything, and you get the hang of reading the plans and looking out for gotchas that aren’t so obvious until you know to look for them. The suggested build order for the RV-9 (and RV-9A, the version I’m building where the third wheel goes at the front where it belongs!) has the novice builder start with the empennage and gradually work up from the relatively bulky bits – vertical stabiliser / fin, horizontal stabiliser / tailplane, then rudder and then finally the elevators and trim tab.
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