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robert ruggles

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It always happens, your looking for a certain plane to buy, find a nice one and soon as you buy it a better one comes on the market. Funny, this never happens in used cars?????
I bought a really nice 1992 RV3A with about 600 hours that has no squawks, after I get her home the builder that built mine 16 years ago puts a 2002 RV3B "Exact Duplicate" of my plane up for sale on Barnstormers, same size motor and same paint job.
Now for 2 weeks I have been trying to make my mind up, should I buy the newer one and sell mine? The 3B has a low time motor, mine has a topped high time motor, the 3B holds 6 more gallons but a lot can be said for the 3A header tank. Many more things had to be considered, I have a new Becker transponder, 3B no transponder, my motor purrs, no leaks, landing gear is perfect, I know what I have, a great plane, but the asking price for the 3B is only $7500 more for a low time 10 year newer plane that holds more go juice.
I made a decision today, buy the 3B and if it's a better plane sell the 3A, besides how cool would it be to have 2 matching RV3's for a while, hmm, which one should I fly today?
Got really excited, called the seller, TOO LATE! it's gone :(
Oh well?
Robert Ruggles
Surprise Az.
 
want what you have

Robert,

Perhaps the words of the famous philosopher Jimmy Buffet will comfort you. "Want what you have".

I saw the pic of your 3 and it is a wonderful little ship. Enjoy her and don't look back.
 
tonyjohnson said:
Robert,

Perhaps the words of the famous philosopher Jimmy Buffet will comfort you. "Want what you have".

I saw the pic of your 3 and it is a wonderful little ship. Enjoy her and don't look back.
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I once heard somewhere... success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
 
Pray

A preacher friend of mine that built a subie powered -6A, once told me he prayed for contentment!

?Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.?
Epicurus quotes (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)
 
Nice quote

Bob Martin said:
?Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.?
Epicurus quotes (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)
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Ironic, now I'm desiring the ability to apply this to my life. That seems to conflict with the statement and it has me confused. :confused:
 
Want what you have

A great statement. I also believe you should also have what you want. Aim high, work hard, and always have a dream as Pop told me once.
 
Yes aim high...

"Shoot for the stars, so you won't achieve dirt."

OK OK, back to wiring.

Bevan
RV7A
 
Bevan said:
"Shoot for the stars, so you won't achieve dirt."

OK OK, back to wiring.

Bevan
RV7A
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Often times when we shoot for the stars we end up in the dirt. Getting up, brushing the dirt off, and not giving up is the real key to achieving anything. For most of us there will be failures along the way.

Wish I could follow my own advice a little more than I do...
 
MacNab said:
Often times when we shoot for the stars we end up in the dirt. Getting up, brushing the dirt off, and not giving up is the real key to achieving anything. For most of us there will be failures along the way.

Wish I could follow my own advice a little more than I do...
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Absolutely MacNab! Roosevelt said it best in his "Man in the Arena" speech:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
 
That's one of my favorites.
I tell it to kids.
But what the heck, I believe in "Sea to Shining Sea Manifest Destiny"
Guess I'm not a "Change We can believe in" kinda guy.
 
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