Yesterday I received several email from Van's and a trucking company, APS. It appears that my partial wing kit has actually been crated and shipped. Van's uses their invoices to document everything, so I had a bit of consternation when I saw another invoice for $$$$, but then noticed the balance due was $0 and there was a line of backordered parts. I haven't had time to download the plans and attach names to the backordered parts, but I know that the main spars are the big items. I'll hopefully get that done tomorrow afternoon.
A thread on VAF discussed bucking rivets and I'm a bit confused. I was under the impression that the plane was designed to be built using only pulled (pop) rivets or squeezed rivets. I'll have to look into that as I have exactly 1 hour of training in bucking rivets and that was ~15 years ago.
On the RV-12 front, it was nearly ready when I chatted with the shop on Wednesday the 29th. The person on the phone was not the A&P working on the plane, but thought it would be ready sometime today. I'm guessing that it'll be Monday or Tuesday. Logistically, that's fine with me because I don't have time off to go get it until Thursday and/or Friday. As always, that's going to be weather dependent. In addition, that's also my estimated window of when the wing kit will arrive. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
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