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N127KT The Dirty Bird flies
On Tuesday October 16 N127KT The Dirty Bird flew for the first time. What a rush! First flight had a couple of squaks that were easily taken care of and the second flight went amazingly well!!!
![]() It was just a few weeks shy of 8 years of building to get to this point. ![]() ![]() A few specs: RV8 Showplanes Fastback Showplanes Cowl 200hp IO-360 built by Barrett Precision Engines with the Proteck EFII Whirlwind 74HRT Grove airfoil gear G3X FlyLEDs JD Air tail wheel many more awesome vendors Empty weight 1035 Thanks all for the advice and encouragement along the way and a special thanks to DR for helping to make my dream of building and flying my own plane a reality. Keep pounding those rivets!!!!! |
Heck yea! Totally awesome! Love first flights :) Congrats!
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Good show!
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Awesome, way to go
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Congratulations! What an achievement!
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Very nice.
WOW....Congrats for sure.......8 yrs....but worth it today!
Love the look of the Showplanes fastback and cowling.....the 74HRT is pretty too. Question if you will.... Any issues with fitting the HRT74 and the Showplanes cowling, if so, how did you address them? Meaning, does the prop contact the cowling when rotated full or coarse pitch? Thanks Bob |
Congrats Aaron! Awesome job!
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Yay! Well done.
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Congrats!
Way to go!
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