Well this is where it starts, Step 1 - sign the check. This certainly must be the hardest part of the build.

I've been thinking about building this plane for years. I met Mr RV himself at AOPA in KPSP and sat in the 12 they are marketing for the SLSA program. I'm hooked. There's a few years of fun, challenges, pride and at some point flying my creation ahead of me -  just like the earliest pioneers of flight.