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Lyle 05-07-2017 11:50 AM

All Done.
 
[IMG][/IMG]Well she's all finished. Took 9.5 years. I built and painted the plane. First flight was on April22/2017 and she flew great, no issues. I now have 10 hours on her flying off my 25 hours. As a side note to Canadian builders, apply for your certificate of registration early, it took 3 months from Transport Canada to get this done, ridiculous.

Lyle Clarkson
RV-9A
Medicine Hat, Ab
Canada
Flying!

David Paule 05-07-2017 12:09 PM

Congratulations! Enjoy it!

Dave

mbauer 05-07-2017 12:43 PM

Wow! A beauty!

Congratulations on a job well done.

snopercod 05-07-2017 12:44 PM

Nice paint job. Congratulations.

Vlad 05-07-2017 12:46 PM

I like your paint scheme very nice. Any vinyl there or all paint?

wirejock 05-07-2017 12:47 PM

Congratulations
 
Congratulations. Very nice.

Snowflake 05-07-2017 03:08 PM

Looks awesome! Congratulations!

elev666 05-07-2017 03:21 PM

Congratulations Lyle,
I was only 6 months ahead of you and still can't wipe away the grin ! Love the paint scheme you chose !

Neal Trombley 05-07-2017 04:03 PM

Congrats great job beautiful paint scheme & job

jcarne 05-07-2017 07:26 PM

Congratulations! She looks great!

slngsht 05-07-2017 07:47 PM

Congrats! Can't wait till I can say "All Done" and not follow it up with "for tonight".

Draker 05-07-2017 10:51 PM

Very inspiring!

rockwoodrv9 05-07-2017 11:03 PM

Nice! It is good to see another 9A get finished. It gives me hope! Great paint. I am working on that now. I just painted my fuselage and if it were an orange, it would look great. Not so much for a plane!!

How did you get yours so smooth? I spent all day Friday sanding and preparing to respray. Did you wet sand, cut, and polish?

Have fun with your flyoff and then the real fun begins!

Paul from Flyleds 05-08-2017 02:41 AM

Nice work Lyle!
What's your next build going to be? :)


carlrai 05-08-2017 04:42 AM

Beautiful Airplane!
 
Well done Lyle. Great paint!

Red and White RV's rock!

MikeyDale 05-08-2017 05:34 AM

Awesome! Looks great!

sbal0906 05-08-2017 07:25 AM

Congratulations! Beautiful plane!

Cheers! :)

Champ 05-08-2017 08:01 AM

Congrats Lyle. Great looking DIY paint job. I can appreciate the work involved in it and also the satisfaction.

Rupester 05-08-2017 09:57 AM

VERY nice. :) ..... welcome to the Flyin' Nines!!!

ppilotmike 05-08-2017 11:12 AM

Great looking plane!
 
Congratulations on a job well done.

Lyle 05-13-2017 09:51 AM

All done
 
Thanks for the nice replies, having fun flyingoff the first 25 hours. Everything is working well.


Lyle

Wunderon 05-13-2017 04:42 PM

Awesome work, congratulations! :)

kiljoy 05-13-2017 10:56 PM

Congratulations! Looks gorgeous! Love the paint!!

Bob Martin 05-14-2017 05:44 AM

Wheel Pants
 
Congrats as well.
I do like the paint scheme.
Someone put a lot of time and effort on the cool wheel pants!
Enjoy the plane!

dave4754 05-14-2017 07:16 AM

Congratulations
 
If you are ever flying up Villeneuve AB way let me know I would love to come look that beauty over, nice job all around looks great.

That must be a Catto prop, i tried finding out more on them but my RV 7 build is going to go the tried and true with a Sensenich metal. Do you think you will have any problems with weight and balance with the lighter Catto?

Great job

Mel 05-14-2017 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rockwoodrv9 (Post 1171526)
Nice! It is good to see another 9A get finished. It gives me hope! Great paint. I am working on that now. I just painted my fuselage and if it were an orange, it would look great. Not so much for a plane!!

"Orange-peel" is usually caused by too high pressure at the gun or holding the gun too close.


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