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05-12-2017, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Originally Posted by snopercod
--Teddy Roosevelt
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt
well said.
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Cincinnati, OH
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05-12-2017, 04:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 1,967
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Melton
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt
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One of my all time favorites.. Quotes like this, when truly understood and honestly considered, define who we are as human beings.
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05-12-2017, 08:33 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 2,820
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Eric,
Over the last thirty years I completed and flew 4 homebuilts. The RV-12 was my last. Number 3 was an Aventura single seat HP that had a scary yaw issue. I remounted the engine to adjust the thrust line which got it to fly straight at cruise power, but immediately yawed when I pulled the throttle back. I finished my RV-12 and was in the process of remounting the HP vertical stab to fix the aerodynamic issue when I walked into the hangar one day and had an epiphany: why screw around with a death trap when I had a beautiful little RV-12 to fly? That was moment I decided my building days were through and sold off the HP and a Dr I project.
Nothing wrong with deciding it's just not what you want to do.
Rich
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05-12-2017, 11:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Jenks, Ok.
Posts: 33
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Towel Time
Eric,
A man has to do what he has to do. Don't beat your self up! We don't know what your real situation might be. If it is just frustration from making building mistakes, Well Your In GOOD Company!! We all have horror stories of failure while building our projects that made us feel we were incompetent, stupid, and embarrassed etc... Now they are just funny learning lessons that happened in our lives. I once got so frustrated that I stopped working on mine for 4 months and it was in my garage where I had to go by it every time I fed the dog or took the trash out. But the urge finally came back to play with all the tools and aluminum again. Building a airplane is like eating a elephant, small pieces at a time. What ever your decision is, I'm sure it's the right decision for you. Good Luck!
Rod Estep
RV-8,
five yrs and three days to build. those last three days were the longest part
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05-12-2017, 11:53 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: BC
Posts: 1,674
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Never quit. Rest, take a break if you have to, get some assistance with the current challenge and keep moving forward at your own pace. You may not be saticefied if you quit.
Bevan
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05-13-2017, 07:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Southern Michigan
Posts: 1,966
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I hit that point also when I started working on the panel and seriously thought I could not finish the plane, and this was my second plane! I just felt overwhelmed at the thought of what was left to do when I was finally getting close. A couple weeks break from the project to regroup and some encouragement from my building buddy got me through it.
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Howell, MI
RV-10: #41686 Under Construction
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05-13-2017, 05:52 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 1,647
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Lots of good advice and interesting perspectives here, but maybe we should just wait for the man to report back. Last seen (post #15), he'd calmed down and ordered new parts, so he's clearly not ready to quit yet.
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05-13-2017, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Posts: 4,435
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From that most excellent documentary movie, "Galaxy Quest:"
"Never give up. Never surrender."
-- Jason Nesmith
Dave
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05-13-2017, 08:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Independence, OR
Posts: 228
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Originally Posted by rgmwa
Lots of good advice and interesting perspectives here, but maybe we should just wait for the man to report back. Last seen (post #15), he'd calmed down and ordered new parts, so he's clearly not ready to quit yet.
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Well said. I've been thinking the same thing myself. 5 pages and we still don't really know what the problem was.
Anyway, the real takeaway for me, from this discussion, is that if a person gets at all discouraged just let it be known on this forum and there are lots of others who have been in the same situation that are willing to offer their encouragement. Says a lot for the folks here.
Jim
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05-14-2017, 06:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Clearwater, Florida
Posts: 398
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The support you all have given this guy speaks volumes about the quality of the forum membership here. As a member of several LSA forums, it does not get any better.
My hat is off to all of you who have contributed to this thread and attempted to help him out.
Almost makes me want to start building something.
[ed. I couldn?t agree more! You put into words almost exactly what I was thinking.
v/r,dr]
Last edited by DeltaRomeo : 05-14-2017 at 09:49 AM.
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