Open Hangar Day at the Carl's Airplane Factory AKA the Hangar

We had a really fun weekend this past weekend.  We hosted an open hangar at our place and invited in local flying and work friends.  Many of these folks say.. you are building your own plane... that is cool, that sounds hard.  It was a great chance to get them to see how it goes together and how both squeezing and pulling rivets works.

We had in friends from the flying club I belong to in Centennial CO, Skyraider Aviation.  They were great and flew down a couple of Gobosh 700's from the club.  I learned to fly and got my sport pilot cert in the Gobosh and love that plane.  It was cool seeing two of them in the parking area in front of the old FBO at Meadow Lake airport just outside Colorado Springs.

We had a great time showing folks the RV-12 and how complete the kit and plans are.  I even recruited some help squeezing some rivets in the initial build out of the wing kit.

My son and I also bolted together the majority of the tail control surfaces to the tail cone.  We still need to fabricate the antiservo tab servo and get it installed, as well as the fairings, but the tail kit is mostly finished.  See the pics below for an idea of where we are at and some cool shots of the Gobosh's at Meadow Lake.