"Jay" wrote

I visited an RV-8A (powered by Subaru) under construction and the 2
builders told me the tail section manual was more detailed than the
rest of the plane instruction.

Manual? What manual? g

My RV-4 tail manual section was very detailed. The rest of
the manual was not. It didn't matter a bit. By the
time you finish the tail you *ought* to have a pretty
good understanding of how things go together. There's
also more than enough detail on the plans to build
without the manual - which is what I pretty much did.
My Skybolt plans/manual look to be pretty much the same way,
which is fine with me.

Dave 'by the book' Hyde