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Old 02-05-2016, 07:58 AM
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great thread. back in 1999 i was looking for my next plane in stuart florida. there were these few rv6s there at the time. the one i bought is on the left front and its sister ship is behind it. the first time i saw my rv to be, the builder was head down, feet sticking out of the cockpit while he was stuffing insulation on the firewall and getting ready for a test pilot to do the first flight. i bought it and that was the beginning of a great relationship with my plane and other rv owners.
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Old 02-05-2016, 08:07 AM
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I was working toward my multi-engine ticket at Sierra Academy in Oakland in 1993. Their BE-76 Duchesses felt like a rocketship after the C-152s I had been training in. One day, we took off with an RV-6 behind us. As I climbed out through 1000', the -6 joins up on our wing in obvious slow flight config. He looks us over, waves, drops the nose a bit, and is gone. My instructor and I look at each other and both say, "I want one of those!".

Up to that point, I had been considering a Ron Sands plans-built Fokker Triplane to go along with an R/C model I was building using the plans as reference. But a few weeks later I had my info kit and -6A plans and never looked back.
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Old 02-05-2016, 08:17 AM
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Met Bob Larcel at Hillsboro Oregon airport 1983 while flying for Hillsboro Helicoptors and teaching in fixed in wing......A man on the other side of the airport named Dave gave me a ride in his white yellow, orange and red RV-4. I had a tail kit for a 4 next month, but didn't start building until we moved to Southern Calif, flew in 1992.
If I had to guess, that man named "Dave" was Dave Lewis.
I met Dave in 1996 when I was looking for a hangar for my Aeronca L3. Dave looked me up and down and said; "follow me". We went around the corner to his large hangar.... "You can put it right here"... between a couple RV4's. I was into antiques and had zero interest in those little aluminum airplanes. Dave had built well over a dozen, including a retract, before the Fed's changed the rules. My first ride in an RV came shortly after and I switched from trying to find an antique project to buying a tail kit from Van's in North Plains.
Ken Scott gave me that ride. His hangar was back and next to ours. Over the years, my hangar mates would include Scott McDaniel, Scott Risen, and several others. You might say I had a lot of encouragement.
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Old 02-05-2016, 08:24 AM
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For me it was 1993 an RV4 at Bulverde airpark (1T8) while getting my private. The owner was doing some repairs and needed an extra set of hands. I even drilled out and shot my first rivet that day (in that order).
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Old 02-05-2016, 08:36 AM
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Default 2008 Beach Party

I was still a student pilot in April 2008 when my instructor invited me to fly up to a fly-in BBQ on the beach at Flathead Lake. After arriving and making a landing on the sand in our humble 172, a great looking plane made a very loud, very high-speed low pass down the makeshift runway, then back came around to land. Someone said "What was that?" Someone else said "I think it was an RV-10." It was love at first sight for me. That RV-10 was acquired a short time later by our own Pierre Smith. Later that year when I started looking into building a plane, the RV-10 came right to the top of the list and never left.

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Old 02-05-2016, 08:45 AM
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I can't even remember whose airplane it was anymore, but it was an RV6 parked outside the sport class hangars at the Reno air races, I think that would have been either '99 or 2000. I spent so much time looking at the airplane that the owner finally came out to talk to me, probably thought I was going to try to steal his instruments or something. That got me started...
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Old 02-05-2016, 08:59 AM
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I went to Oshkosh in 1987 and saw the RV-4 and thought it was awesome. I went home and ordered the info package complete with the VHS tape. Life gets in the way and finally received my -8 tail kit in 1996.
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Old 02-05-2016, 09:10 AM
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Default December 2003

It was mid-December 2003, just after the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first powered flight. It was too cold and dismal outside to fly my Citabria, and I was bored.
Building a plane had always been a dream, but only that. I was 45 and figured, if I'm going to do it, I better do it now. But what plane? It didn't take long before I was
looking at VansAircraft.com. The RV was exactly what I was looking for, a project I could finish, great reviews, total performance, good-looking. I ordered the infopack/video
the same day. I was so excited! Within two months I had the preview plans, tools and emp kit. I started building and never looked back. A little over five years later,
in spring of 2009, I was flying my own RV. It has been everything I thought it would be and more. Changed my life, really. One of the best things I ever did.
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Old 02-05-2016, 09:15 AM
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Default Re: When did you first see / hear of an RV?

It was 1981 when, unfortunately, a USAF pilot from the nearby airbase suffered a wing failure in an RV-3 during a low pass over the local airport.
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Old 02-05-2016, 09:17 AM
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Default Glenn Whittley

I went to the Camarillo Airshow in 1992 in hopes to see a Glasair 2. The
factory representative wouldn't give me the time of day. I had been interested in building and in early 1993 I was walking around looking
in hangars at Cable Airport. Glenn Whittley was kind enough to
show me the RV-6 he had just finished building (he also had an RV-4).
He then offered me a ride. Wow. I ordered the kit the following week.
I built the tail for my -6 in his hangar under his watchful eye.
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