Stjohn's RV-7

3 hours.
Condensed, of course. Got the autopilot pitch servo mounting bracket from Trio Avionics (They rock, by the way) and finally got it all lined up just behind the elevator bellcrank. I also got the aileron trim servo installed. The next thing, which I absolutely dread, is bending the fuel and tank vent lines, but once that’s done, I can start on the canopy. I’ve been lax on this whole thing, because sometimes I find it a damned sight easier to sit in front of the computer in my pajamas for a couple of hours in the morning than to nut up and go bang aluminum or puzzle out a part fit. This has got to stop. I need to haul ass out of bed, get into the shop and get it on, because I’ll tell you, I’ve been waiting and watching, and so far, I haven’t had a visit from the Aircraft Elves, who show up in the middle of the night and finish your aircraft by morning. Nor is my RV7 a flying Christine, capable of rebuilding herself from scratch. Still trying to think of a good paint scheme. Maybe a steampunk motif, since I’m drawing quite a few parallels with HG Wells’s The Time Machine, in which an eccentric scientist spends years in his laboratory, building a machine capable of crossing great gulfs of time and space.