Today, Tami got to go on her first airplane ride with my flight instructor for a 1/2 hour demo flight.  I knew I was hooked on flying, but I knew it will be better for me (for freeing up $$$) if Tami enjoyed flying too.  She got to go up on a really calm, and beautiful morning.  She come back with a big grin on her face and that was just a ride in a Cessna 150...  Imagine what kind of grin she will have after her first RV ride :)

While we were taking a break at the airport, a builder that just completed his RV-4 did a low altitude, high speed pass over the runway.  WAY COOL!!!!!  The RV came in so fast over the runway we couldn't see him for very long.  It was way faster than the spamcan Cessna 150 I am learning in.  Tami even got a kick out of the RV's fly over (LOUD AND FAST, enough for all but the most demanding adrenaline junkie).  When we got back home, Tami was pretty motivated to help work on the plane.  She didn't leave the garage all day and got as much done on the plane as I did.

We put together the vertical stabilizer.  You can see Tami clecoing the VS-808PP spar doubler to the VS-803PP rear spar.

Look closely at the laptop, Van's RV-7 website on the screen to keep us motivated!!

After putting on the VS-801PP skin, we match drilled all of the skin holes to #40 and all spar to rib attachment points to #30.  this was pretty easy.  Van's should have had builders start with the vertical stabilizer first as this was alot easier and less complicated than the horizontal stabilizer.

Tami worked very diligently at deburring the hundred's of holes in the vertical stabilizer parts after I deburred the edges and marked the parts for re-assembly.