Jim Mizaur -- RV-9A · · Warwick, Massachusetts. 

June 17, 2008:  I had a morning business meeting today and followed it up with an RV-lunch with builder Jim Mizaur.  Jim is semi-retired and building an RV-9A in this home and garage he built in rural Mass.   His business was building traditional New England barns and his own home shown here.  The construction uses solid beams, not the more common 2x6 or 2x8 boards used in more contemporary construction today.

The airplane workshop is inside this building attached to the main house.

Jim sent me an email after seeing my web site recently.   He asked about the sliding canopy skirt fit with the fuselage sides.  He was showing me the inside of his fuselage and the location of his dual-batteries, fuse panels, and the avionics before he started putting the front top skin in place for a check of the windshield and canopy.

I took this shot of the panel layout while Jim finished putting clecoes into the forward skin.  Two large Grand Rapids Technology screens occupy a major portion of the panel.  A Garmin GNS-480 GPS/NAV/COM, Garmin SL-30, and Garmin GTX-330 fill most of the stack.

That large white power cable going into the floor connects to the batteries from a Cessna battery booster cable plug on the bottom of the fuselage.

Here is a view of the windshield in place after the roll bar was put in place.   Jim inherited this project from another builder and will finish it to his liking in the months ahead.  The windshield was cut a bit short on the sides, but can be salvaged with some judicious application of fiber glass and a pre-fabricated fairing he purchased.  He had been asking about my installation as seen beginning on my PAGE 99.