My phase 1 restriction is 50 nm from home, so I can't get down to Bisman just yet. Soon, though!I’ll be at the airport tomorrow. Come on down
Congrats!! Let me know when you setup the GoFundMe for the paint job.My phase 1 restriction is 50 nm from home, so I can't get down to Bisman just yet. Soon, though!
Here is the picture my friend took and my sister doctored. The entire process of making this joke at my expense was done before I got back into the landing pattern.
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The interior will be the first of my GoFundMe campaigns. I can stare at those aluminum wings forever if I’m not sitting on an aluminum pan.Congrats!! Let me know when you setup the GoFundMe for the paint job.![]()
A bit over 3 years and 1300 man-hours. That doesn’t include research, studying manuals, writing checklists, etc.Ikea, lol !
Congrats !
Not quite 'two weeks to taxi'....
How long did it take you to get to this point ?
If I didn't hate you prepunched guys already that would be enough right there....1300 man-hours...
It’s okay to hate us. We’ll still help you dimple and rivet once you finish drilling your 80,000 holes.If I didn't hate you prepunched guys already that would be enough right there.
All jokes aside, congratulations! I hope to see regular updates.
Nauga,
back in the game
What I need now is someone to talk me out of the whole thing.
That is a very convincing argument. When are you going to get the SFAR training to operate a time machine?I’m here to tell you that you really shouldn’t do it. If it’s an RV, you’ll be required to do overhead breaks for pattern entry and every pilot if a Twin Cessna will get annoyed with you. Plus it’s a lot of work to build a plane.
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That is a very convincing argument. When are you going to get the SFAR training to operate a time machine?
If I didn't hate you prepunched guys already that would be enough right there.
All jokes aside, congratulations! I hope to see regular updates.
Nauga,
back in the game
A bit over 3 years and 1300 man-hours. That doesn’t include research, studying manuals, writing checklists, etc.
Challenge accepted!Congrats. Well done!!
But I have to note that has to be the longest duration IKEA flat-pack assembly project in history.![]()
I would be glad to stop by, show my pictures, tell my story, and try to talk you all out of doing it. Let me know when the kids are ready to hear that.I’m going through and catching up on your thread. A major congratulations for your accomplishment. Incidentally, I do expect my kids will want to build a plane at some point and in a few years, that may be taking up a bay in the shop.
I would be glad to stop by, show my pictures, tell my story, and try to talk you all out of doing it. Let me know when the kids are ready to hear that.![]()
It means the RV is almost ready to fly again after an extended downtime for upgrades and relocations and life in general. But this is the 'talk me out of building" thread, not the 'talk me out of *re*building.'Does that imply the RV-4 is going to be replaced with something now under construction?
I doubt the people around here would do a better job of that than they did for my initial build.But this is the 'talk me out of building" thread, not the 'talk me out of *re*building.'
I doubt the people around here would do a better job of that than they did for my initial build.
I always try to rebuild things at least half as badly as I built them.
I was planning to build a joke plane from my scrap parts and play a prank on the DAR. People say “practice on a piece of scrap” and I always retort “I run an equal opportunity shop. Every piece I work on has an equal opportunity to become scrap.”"We make it nice because we do it twice!"
If you build a plane you will rebuild/remake a few parts in the learning process.
(The voice of experience)