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How Do You Refer To Your Unfinished Airplane?
Since most of my visitors are non-homebuilders, and for that matter, non-pilots, I call it the "kit airplane." In fact, that's the way I tend to think of it now, even though I haven an N number reserved.
So how do you refer to yours? Dave RV-3B in the shop Considerably later - I forgot to include something that should have been included, sorry. I use the term "kit airplane" to differentiate it from my flying Cessna out in a hangar at the airport, which most shop visitors know I have. Dave |
Airplane project.
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Yep, airplane project.
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She has been named. Her name is Jane (for Plane Jane). The other woman in my life that gets a lot of my attention. Still building the fuselage.
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The Girlfriend. Fianc? is ok with the name even.
It might just makes it way onto the airplane when flying, that way I can tell everyone I spent time with the girlfriend, took her for a ride, went on a trip with her, etc. |
Airplane project. Or, if I'm not in the mood to play 20 questions, my woodworking project.
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I called it my Project or my Hobbie. Tried to stress it was not an airplane until I received the airworthiness certificate. That always seemed to make visitors feel like there was a formal process to get approval to fly as they typical envisioned a garage built airplane to be unregulated.
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The airplane
I?m going to the workshop to work on the airplane.
I?m buying parts for the airplane. I need your help with the airplane. I?d love to take out the trash, but I?m buried in the back of the airplane. |
Least favorite question
My least favorite question when people hear I built an airplane is, "oh was it a kit?" The term kit does not do justice to the nature of building a Vans aircraft.
Most are surprised when I show them a picture. "Oh wow, it's a real airplane" Michael- |
I use to refer to mine as "Dash 7" because it had an airlinery sound.
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