First build. Last? Who knows?
The RV-8 is my first build. I'm just over two years in and not making a whole lot of progress right now. I'm in no rush. I don't want to take on finance, so money is what makes or breaks my progress. Mind you, I have made many modifications to the base design, some small and 'easy' and others quite significant. I reckon I have a good couple of hundred hours in mods so far! If I were to do another one no way would I do all the mods, but this particular plane is to be mine (as in, not intended for sale) and so I want it exactly to the picture in my mind's eye.
Would I do it again? Maybe, not sure. I have to admit, I have a hankering to build a helicopter and I like the look of the Rotorway A600 Talon. In fact, when deciding what to build it was a throw down between an RV and a Rotorway. The RV won based purely on end-use practicality (higher, faster, cheaper, carries more, further, etc) but I still have my heart in that helicopter...
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