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01-16-2018, 07:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Seattle
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Get some popcorn and a six pack on the ready and settle in ......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5A7_oPAw9c
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01-16-2018, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Oconto, WI
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Before you go to far, keep in mind that a stock RV-8 will swallow an amazing amount of stuff, particularly if you are solo and don't have someone in the back seat. I loaded up to go to EAA one time and by the time I got ready to takeoff the weather came down and I had to scrub. When I unloaded the plane I realized that all the camping stuff, gear, etc... pretty much filled my Audi A4 sedan!
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01-17-2018, 07:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
Posts: 9,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallylancer122
Before you go to far, keep in mind that a stock RV-8 will swallow an amazing amount of stuff, particularly if you are solo and don't have someone in the back seat.
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Increase it further with a fastback conversion. Adding height to the turtledeck allows a heap more stuff.
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Originally Posted by Ryano
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A fella could make nice underwing baggage pods using RV-10 wheelpants for the body.
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01-17-2018, 09:52 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
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Read an article in Feb/18 Kitplanes about an RV8 that did north and south poles. Noticed he had a baggage pod underneath.

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01-17-2018, 10:09 AM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,420
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Welcome to VAF
Jason, welcome aboard the good ship VAF 
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011 
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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01-17-2018, 12:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: AZ/MN
Posts: 376
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Wing locker?
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Originally Posted by rv7charlie
Structurally, using the wing tiedown hard points or the volume in the wing tips makes more sense (at the expense of spin recovery ability, if you think you might get into a spin while carrying extra baggage...).
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Wing tip locker:

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RV-4 '88-'09 Built & Sold
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01-17-2018, 03:57 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
Posts: 6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike S
Jason, welcome aboard the good ship VAF 
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Thanks Mike. I'm at the planning stages right now, ready to pull the trigger on a kit. Spent over a year now thinking about it, decided on the -8 last year.
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01-17-2018, 07:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Southern California
Posts: 882
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RV-8 Storage
As others have said, an awful lot of stuff can fit into an -8.
Here's an example of what I can carry with 2 people (and we had a little room to spare):
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Last edited by skylor : 01-17-2018 at 07:37 PM.
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01-17-2018, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SC
Posts: 12,887
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Someone made them for an RV-4.
I see no reason why you couldn't make a pair for your plane.

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RV-9 (Yes, it's a dragon tail)
O-360 w/ dual P-mags
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01-17-2018, 08:53 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pocahontas MS
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