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First flight for C-FIJT

ackselle

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So in February of 2014 I started building RV-7A s/n 74310. With a lot of help from Bill Funk, Rob Hickman, Mark Elste and all of you on this forum, C-FIJT took to the air fir the first time on June 16, 2017 at Steinbach airport (CJB3) with Bill Funk at the controls.

Here's a link to the first flight/ first landing video.
https://youtu.be/5OGd-I1BwFk

Special thanks to my wife Bev....without her support, I wouldn't have started. Now we plan to use our little plane together to fly between Winnipeg, MB, Mesa, AZ and Sarasota, FL...and other places just because.

Cheers,
ackselle
 
Congrats! You're gonna love that plane. Do a complete test program and make a detailed POH. The process will get the two of you well acquainted. Enjoy.

Bevan.
 
Nicely done

Congratulaitons and nice timeline only three year build!

Hope to join you this year with mine.

d
Dave
 
Congrats!

Congratulations!

I'm jealous of your 3 year time frame. Five years in, and I'm still on the emp.

I'll get there and join you in the southern Manitoba skies!

Cheers!
 
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Done....again!

I've enjoyed 18 months of flying with my aluminum and fiberglass colored "magic carpet"....and this winter it was time to put some personality on C-FIJT. Special "thank-you"s go out to Dave O'Malley and John Funk. Dave came up with the paint scheme, and John applied the product.

Oh yeah..."Go Jets!"
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Now that is a cool paint job! It would be interesting to hear a little more about the whole paint design and execution..
 
Now that is a cool paint job! It would be interesting to hear a little more about the whole paint design and execution..

Well...the paint scheme is inspired by the Y2K Spitfire at Vintage Wings of Canada at the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport. Check it out here...
http://www.vintagewings.ca/en-ca/home.aspx

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When the Winnipeg Jets unveiled their logo(below), We decided we would do a Jets/Y2K inspired paint scheme.

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Wow, what an outstanding paint scheme. Very impressiv. I would love to have a semi military paint scheme on my bird too, but I am affraid of the camouflage effect doinging its job to well. I guess esp. the nice grey in grey colors blend nicely into a misty sky.
 
Awesome paint scheme! Congratulations on such a nice 7.

A few years back an A&P friend of mine introduced me to Canada's very rich military aviation history and I'm glad he did because I had no idea that it is so impressive.
 
Time for some A2A photos

Great sun in the evening for some A2A pics...

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Thanks to Rick Hiebert and Curtis Penner for the A2A action!
 
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