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12-25-2018, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Posts: 4,435
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How Do You Refer To Your Unfinished Airplane?
Since most of my visitors are non-homebuilders, and for that matter, non-pilots, I call it the "kit airplane." In fact, that's the way I tend to think of it now, even though I haven an N number reserved.
So how do you refer to yours?
Dave
RV-3B in the shop
Considerably later - I forgot to include something that should have been included, sorry. I use the term "kit airplane" to differentiate it from my flying Cessna out in a hangar at the airport, which most shop visitors know I have.
Dave
Last edited by David Paule : 01-03-2019 at 09:08 AM.
Reason: See final paragraph
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12-25-2018, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Flower Mound, TX
Posts: 1,473
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Airplane project.
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Sid "Scroll" Mayeux, Col, USAF (ret)
52F NW Regional/Aero Valley Airport, Roanoke TX (home of DR's Van Cave)
"KELLI GIRL" N260KM RV-7A tipper
Catch her on YouTube's "Because I Fly!" channel
Exemption waived.
Proud and grateful 2020 -=VAF=- Contributor
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12-25-2018, 03:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Irvine, CA
Posts: 873
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Yep, airplane project.
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Mark
RV-12iS Fuselage
RV-9A Project: Sold
VAF donation made for 2020
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12-25-2018, 03:45 PM
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 125
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She has been named. Her name is Jane (for Plane Jane). The other woman in my life that gets a lot of my attention. Still building the fuselage.
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Joe
Flying friends RV7A
Built RV7 empennage.
Building wings done - minus glass and lights.
Building Fuselage
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12-25-2018, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Jeffersonville, IN
Posts: 393
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The Girlfriend. Fianc? is ok with the name even.
It might just makes it way onto the airplane when flying, that way I can tell everyone I spent time with the girlfriend, took her for a ride, went on a trip with her, etc.
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Jeff Scott
RV9A First Flight 9/30/19
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12-25-2018, 06:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
Posts: 2,247
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Airplane project. Or, if I'm not in the mood to play 20 questions, my woodworking project.
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Dale
Omaha, NE
RV-12 # 222 N980KM "Screamin' Canary" (bought flying)
Fisher Celebrity (under construction)
Previous RV-7 project (sold)
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12-25-2018, 06:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Defiance, MO
Posts: 1,674
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I called it my Project or my Hobbie. Tried to stress it was not an airplane until I received the airworthiness certificate. That always seemed to make visitors feel like there was a formal process to get approval to fly as they typical envisioned a garage built airplane to be unregulated.
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Philip
RV-6A - 14+ years, 950+ hours
Based at 1H0 (Creve Coeur)
Paid dues yearly since 2007
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12-25-2018, 06:54 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Northern California, USA
Posts: 537
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The airplane
I?m going to the workshop to work on the airplane.
I?m buying parts for the airplane.
I need your help with the airplane.
I?d love to take out the trash, but I?m buried in the back of the airplane.
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Martin Gomez
Redwood City, CA
"My RV-7 is a composite airplane: it's made of aluminum, blood, sweat, and money"
RV-7 Slider QB
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12-25-2018, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sammamish, WA
Posts: 654
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Least favorite question
My least favorite question when people hear I built an airplane is, "oh was it a kit?" The term kit does not do justice to the nature of building a Vans aircraft.
Most are surprised when I show them a picture. "Oh wow, it's a real airplane"
Michael-
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Michael Burbidge
Sammamish, WA
RV-14A Empennage
RV-9A Flying?340 hours!
Last Donation: December 2019
Last edited by Michael Burbidge : 12-25-2018 at 10:46 PM.
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12-25-2018, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Foley, Al
Posts: 563
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I use to refer to mine as "Dash 7" because it had an airlinery sound.
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Paul Gray
Foley, Alabama
N729PG..... 450+ hrs
RV 7A, Lycoming 0 320 D1A, Sensenich FP propeller
pilotforfun2001@yahoo.com
VAF supporter $$$
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