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Pretty cool to have more time flying this wonderful airplane than building it!
pound them rivets and burn that avgas
pound them rivets and burn that avgas
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Pretty cool to have more time flying than building!
pound them rivets and burn that avgas
Pretty cool to have more time flying than building!
pound them rivets and burn that avgas
That was my argument for buying a flying RV- and no regrets about that! Just be sure to get a good one, and that WILL take some effort.
... -Otis
Pretty cool to have more time flying than building!
pound them rivets and burn that avgas
Pretty cool to have more time flying than building!
pound them rivets and burn that avgas
Surprisingly, many of us really enjoyed the build process and miss it when we start flying.
I know, it sounds crazy but it is true. Maybe that's why we keep changing, upgrading, modifying, etc. our planes.
It does not sound crazy at all- I've been a passionate builder of things, including one airplane, for over 60 years. I bought my RV at 66 years of age and plan to fly it until I?m 90 or so. I was tempted to build but, in the end, maximizing available flying years won out.
Some may remember a VAF fellow who went by the moniker ?Cytoxin?, one of the drugs that kept him going long enough to nearly complete the airplane I own now. His name was William Weesner, and I owe him a mountainous debt of gratitude. I understand he was a career air force helicopter A&P and, later, while building my bird, a vo-tech instructor. He built my RV knowing he would not likely live to see it fly, but he put every fiber of his heart and soul into it. I never met him, but I paid cash in full for it sight-unseen from 3,000 miles away after studying more than 1,000 high resolution build photos that he took, and it is one of the best slow-build RV?s I have ever seen. The only photo I?ve seen of William is the reflection below, caught in one of his build photos. I take it as my duty to meet his standard of quality in the hundreds of hours I?m investing in an extensive series of upgrade modifications I?m in the middle of, most of which have been documented here on VAF- Otis
William Weesner, RIP: