It's a chapter build and I'm the "build coordinator" but we have no shortage of skilled builders in the chapters (more than 100 years of E-AB building experience just in the photo).
You can't swing a dead cat in the chapter without hitting a retired NASA or WSMR engineer. Which isn't necessarily a good thing. ie. instead of just plugging in the fracken EFIS and seeing if the fracken thing works we had to put it on the fracken test bench for 3 months and test every fracken function, even the ones we'll never use. ...because that's the way they did on the Apollo program. (NASA couldn't build something as simple as a Volksplane if their life depended on it :gig
If we had 10 years to build the airplane it would be great but buy the time the rest of the kit showed up we only had one year to do it.
The airplane is part of the EAA Give Flight program. EAA national gave 5 chapters a set of wings that were built at OSH 2015 (HBA's Wayne is in the program, his guys successfully built a 750). We were supposed to get the airplane built and fly it to OSH this year.
The bottom line is: I said we could we could do it and we couldn't. My bust, but I'll get over it
