Day two of organizing and cataloging parts. Van's did an excellent job of packing the parts and securing them in place. Still working to get the garage cleaned and organized around my workspace. I have the feeling that this will be a continuing struggle!

As soon as I am finished with the annual on the Cherokee, I will bring my last remaining workbench home from the hangar and put the drill press, band saw and bench grinder on that for a mobile tool table.

Tiffany's grandparents are on their way to Phoenix and bringing along with them many metal working tools from their RV4 project so many years ago! I will have the honor of putting the very same tools that were used in the building of their RV-4 to good use in constructing the RV-14! Once I get the tools inventoried then I will be placing an order for the remaining tools needed to commence work!

On a side note, I was able to figure out the power supply issue for my video camera to be able to record the entire build and make youtube video blog with my build. As soon as I can figure out how to put a link in this blog to my youtube site, I will let you know!!!

Today was finally the day! FedEx delivered the crate, had a great conversation with the driver about what we are doing and off she went!

Unfortunately I am working night shift so I was not able to dive too deeply into cataloging the kit, but will get a good start tomorrow after I get home and have it finished by the next day, so I hope!

overall, the box looked worse than it actually was, there were a few areas of obvious damage, but so far, nothing seems damaged!

The shipping companies' inspection timeframes have apparently shortened. You have 5 days to report any "concealed" damage, or damage that you find as you unpack, otherwise they will not honor any claim of damage from a part of the shipping that was not originally identified.

We plan to have the youtube videos up and running shortly and will have them posted under Scott and Tiffany's RV14. If you are stumbling upon this blog and haven't seen them yet, take a look at our youtube videos!

And I just received notice that my Empennage has shipped! It is expected to be delivered in 3 days! So exciting that this is finally happening! I have watched several Youtube Vlogs of people starting their Van's aircraft builds and now I am about to start my own adventure!

As a side note..... it is going to have to be a delayed excitement. I was expecting the delivery to take just a few more days and the family and I are going to Vegas this weekend to have some fun..... so, we will wait for delivery, put the crate in the garage and then hit the road for sin city!!!

The new Airplane Manufacturing Plant continues to be cleaned out!

Made a lot of progress in clearing out the garage to make way for my shop. I am expecting to have my kit in just a couple weeks and should be ready by then! I will be ordering tools shortly after the first of November!

So...... I got kicked out of my hangar...... the owners apparently decided to sell and I was evicted..... not even 45 days into the year long lease.....

Oh well..... I guess I will save myself $240 a month and build my plane in my garage......

Time to clear this mess out!!!

This will be my Wings blog

This page will be my Empennage build page

I finally was able to put my brand new (to me) 1964 Piper Cherokee 235 in a hangar at Glendale Airport! The Hangar is large enough that we can build our RV-14a project right along side it!

Time to get started building my EAA1000 work bench! Its a great design and easily built. To find the plans, visit EAA's website!

I used 2x4s for the support and MDF for the bottom shelf. For the table top, I used a maple plywood. I was hoping for a straight board, but it ended up having some ripples and had to be sanded down. No one wants a warped Aileron!

And, there we have it! Two full sized work benches and a mini bench to hold the bench grinder, drill press and band saw!