mh wrote:
Is your Onex flying?
Soooon… Next summer it will hopefully get some air under the wings. All of the airframe and stuff is finished, even painted and polished (most of it). I am literally at the point where I am 90% finished and got 90% left 
My RV12 finally took flight for the first time today in the careful hands of LAA inspector and fellow RV12 builder Jerry Parr. After his initial sole flight I joined him and we completed a further 2 hours and 11 more landings. No snags and it flies perfectly. More flying tomorrow to complete the LAA test schedule.
That must be a great feeling!
WOW, congratulations
Story of my Bristell TDO in pictures:
Building story finished in Jun 2017 …
And some pics from flight
… and some pictures from different category … non certified as well.
These birds are born from kit as well … just under “user test” now … doing well
The Czech designs seem to use solid rivets almost everywhere, as shown in the Bristell photo, and that’s something I noticed immediately and appreciate. In the same photo I notice 0.025 inch thick 6061-T6 wing skins, which is also good to me – 6061 is cheap and the additional strength of 2024 doesn’t seem useful on a light plane where the skin thickness are often sized for practicality in relation to punch loads during ground handling, not in-plane flight loads. It looks like a nice plane.
