Our Vans RV-7A project (Wing update #2 ) - Stall Warner, Wiring Harness, Pitot Tube and more!

[@ColbyOsborn]

Whoa! I was not mentally prepared for the borescope shot through the conduit, lol. 🤯 Great video.

[@SteinAir]

Wow, what a fabulous intro!! Great progress so far. 👍

[@CliffandJanie]

Thanks Stein! Can't wait to do the rest of the panel with you guys. Even better videos to come

[@cramersclassics]

So nice to see you both building! I have the same RV7A and installed a complete Garmin G3X IFR panel last year. Quite a learning curve but so rewarding. Also enjoyed the SNJ flying too. Looking forward to your videos.

[@CliffandJanie]

Thank you! We are looking forward to the learning curve of the G3X panel. A good excuse to do a bunch of flying!

[@andresuribe8765]

So cool to see it all coming together, I have a few hours in an RV-8A, you’re gonna love the “Total performance"

[@samj1185]

Impressive attention to detail. For polishing aluminum, if you've never heard of Zephyr Pro 40, you'll be amazed.

[@CliffandJanie]

As cool and beautiful a polished airplane is, we will definitely be painting this for ease of maintenance and keeping clean! Will definitely check out the project though

[@higjeff]

Good job, guys! Great video. Thanks for sharing!

[@g3rryr]

Hi, enjoyable videos, please keep them up - I'm a little behind you working on my RV-8A QB wings and being a first time builder it's great to see what others have done. How did you drill the holes for the conduit in the section where the lower skin is already attached. I guess you were able to get a drill in through the access hatches but what about where there are extra ribs in the wing walk area?

[@CliffandJanie]

Amazing how many ways everyone does these airplanes. Each one has its own touch! We bought extenders and a step drill with a hex shank for the area with the skin already on. Marked the spot with a template, drilled a pilot hole, used the step drill, and then redid it for each rib for the first 5. Make sure the step drill is 3/4 so you can go all the way through! The other ribs we were able to do through the access panels with plenty of room.

[@paulbrunner1818]

On my RV7a, with the Garmin AOA, I found that while I have both visual and audio for the approach-to-stall, it is the (progressive) audio that is more important (than the green-yellow-red visual) when landing or taking off since I'm focused on the outside environment. PS - great build videos and that was a T-6 on the SNJ flyout?

[@CliffandJanie]

It's cool that there are RV's flying around with no stall warner all the way up to heated pitot / AOA indicators. Love these planes! Yes! The back seat views and formation plane!

[@experimental_av]

Just found your channel, interesting you install a manual stall warning. Are you sure you gonna hear much of it with noise canceling headphones?

[@CliffandJanie]

Stall warners are an old school system with these buzzers installed on a lot of aircraft. No problems hearing it with noise cancelling. In fact I think its better in the background than through the headset audio

[@experimental_av]

@@CliffandJanie ah right, yours is an electric buzzer, remember flying a Cessna with active headsets and it was very dim but I think they use some sort of pneumatic whistle. Anyway cool videos, just subscribed.

[@thomasaltruda1243]

You fly a T-6? Why build an “A” model RV?

[@philipritson8821]

Same questions here. There's no end of taildraggers in their life. Why go for an RV-7A when they're tail dragger proficient?