On August 18 and 19, Dad drove down and went with Ashley and I to the EAA SportAir Workshop on building a Vans RV. The workshop was held in Waco by the local EAA chapter there. The intent of the workshop is to give future builders an introduction to the tools and techniques required to build an airplane. The do this by building a couple of practice projects. The first is just a few pieces of aluminum riveted together to work on technique. We each completed our own version of this and Ashley easily bettered both of the guys.

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After that we worked together to complete a small airfoil piece similar to the control surfaces on the Vans kits. All in all, we had a great time of working with the tools and gaining confidence.