Section 13 - Main Spar (Left side completed)

Lots accomplished during the first weekend after receiving the wing kit, including finished this section (left wing only, since I'm building one wing at a time), and starting Section 14 Wing ribs (mostly straightening ribs and deburring holes and edges).

Match-drilled long and short j-channels using pilot holes from main spar flanges:

Section 13 - Main Spar (Wing Kit Delivery and Inventory)

Finally, after waiting far too long (my fault, entirely), I received the RV-14A Wing Kit.  As was the case for the empennage kit, the outside of each crate was damaged ... but none of the parts were affected.  This is a true testament to Van's crating department!  Below are just a few shots of the nearly 8.5 hrs it took to open the crates, inventory all the parts, and put everything in their proper predetermined places. My guess is that this kit will be about twice the amount of work, as compared to the empennage kit.  Holy crap, there are a lot of parts.

Section 10 - Aft Fuselage (waiting....)

I'm still alive - barely hanging on - waiting for my wing kit.  As of tonight, it's somewhere near Omaha.  The delivery date moved from 2/15 to 2/22 today - argh.  To beat back my pseudo-depression, I cleaned and reorganized the workshop, and put away most of the tail feathers and tucked the aft fuselage in the corner of the workshop. All tools are finally put away in their proper homes.  There's nothing left to do but wait.  That's not my forte.

In the interim, I hung the horizontal stabilizer on the garage/workshop wall - it's still hanging a week later, so that's good.  My wife heard a loud CRASH in the garage last week, and thought it was this part falling to the ground.  Thankfully, it was just a spring that broke on our other garage door.