Jim Streit RV-9A · · PAGE 2

November 26, 2005:  The view from the front shows something I have not seen before, square metal tube for the wing spar spacers.

This photo shows more detail on the spacer tubes.  They have been machined from 1.5 inches down to the size needed for the correct spacing of the wing spars.   The hole he has drilled near the end is for a possible jack to suspend the fuselage as needed for future work.

Back at the tail end of the fuselage you can see the rudder cable exit fairing is the current work in progress.

My last picture of the day for Jim is from inside the baggage area.  Jim has installed all the ribs with plate nuts and screws to secure the deck plates in the baggage and seating areas.  He wants to have unlimited access to assure that his corrosion protection can be reworked as needed in the future.

With all the extra corrosion protection and a constant speed prop up front, I expect Jim will find his RV-9A will come out "heavy" as mine did.

January 13, 2006:  I want to apologize to Jim for not putting up these photos he sent me back on December 26th.   If you have been reading this web site main section, you know that I was away for parts of the holiday period.  Jim sent these three low-res photos which I resized to match the others on this page.  As you can see, the canopy and canopy skirts are now riveted to the 4130 steel canopy frame.  The rainbow colors on the aft fuselage skin are a result of the file compression and resizing/resampling of the digital photos.

The aft view shows the excellent fit of the canopy skirts on the aft fuselage skin over the baggage area.

This closer view really shows the GREAT fit of the canopy skirts.

Jim, next time feel free to send me some higher resolution photos.  I shoot 1-megapixel photos which are around 300 kilobyte files.  I use this web publisher to resize and resample them when I post to the web.  That reduces the file sizes into the range of 70 to 100 kilobytes.