Did you get a date because you flew an RV...?

[John Clark]

I didn't have the nerve to ask....

John Clark
RV8 N18U "Sunshine"
KSBA

[turbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZjSDM04_ZY
met the nicest person in the world at hobby hill flyin 5 years ago and been perfect since. no picks of first flight with her but been smooth sailing since. good luck to all seareching for miss perfect.

[N8RV]

Originally Posted by TOAD

Well not a first date but....
I have been telling my wife that aerobatics is like sex...

Nose up and around we went. Bob Hoover would have been proud. Very genital with the scenery overhead changing from blue to green to blue again ...

Hmmm ... no wonder flying is like sex with you ... you're not taking ME for a ride, dude ...

[Dang, Pierre, you beat me to it.]

[f117fte]

He chased me to Osh as my wing man and I chased him all the way back.



Mercedes
RV-6A

[airguy]

Lost a wife and 2 girlfriends over the project, but I'm dating a good girl now who just can't get enough of "airplane stuff" - looks good so far!

[mtnflyer]

OK so here I am, it's the mid 90s and I'm flitting about the countryside in my 4,enjoying the life of a footloose bachelor, aw what a life. (the 4 cost me wife #2) o well ..... But wait ! This is happiness no woman can stand!!! so here comes wife #1, waiting in the wings after 20 years,,,,,I guess I was a hard act to follow.

She says she loves to fly and worst of all, Pot roast and mashed potatoes were waiting in her lair. TRAPPED, MY ONE WEAKNESS.

Well, it wasn't too bad except all of the sudden she seemed to think she was my equal and wanted to sit alongside of me instead behind me. so here I am, what am I to do... I was forced to build an rv6. aw, A happy wife is a happy life,,,,,,,,,,,, Time passes,many hours from the mountains of Colorado to the keys of Florida, to Arlington, to Copperstate. Then the words I feared the most "I can fly this thing, It's a piece of cake" and she got her ticket, plus she got a tail dragger rating and then she wants to go out and fly with girls.......terror,,,,,mayby I should build her a 7A,,,,,,ya that it.
The 7 flies in the summer of 08 and I think all is well!

We have a yellow lab that my wife loves.(when I die I want come back as her lab) and a problem arises, the lab cannot go with us on our grand aventures.... And the words rv10 keep coming up our conversations and I don't know what to do. Am I going to be forced to go back down to the shop again....

so guys, beware,, there are are women out there that will tempt you with pot roast and mashed potatoes and you will be forced to spend the rest of your life building airplanes to keep her happy and in the air.
MTNFLYER

[pierre smith]

Originally Posted by mtnflyer

The 7 flies in the summer of 08 and I think all is well!

.... And the words rv10 keep coming up our conversations and I don't know what to do. Am I going to be forced to go back down to the shop again....


MTNFLYER

.....and SHE is the reason we have a -10. Climbing out....er...extracting ourselves....er groaning to get out of the -6, one day, she asks...."Pierre, have you considered a -10?" WOW!...keep talking, Lady..the rest is history.

Our itinerary is Charleston on Thursday...her idea.

Best,

[zspivey]

My grandniece wanted to fly. We celebrated her 9th birthday with this one.


My bride of over 40 years does not share my enthusiasm for flying. She does enjoy our grandchildren. We have made the trip to see our daughter, her husband and their children in both of the RV's I have owned. The 4 hour flight beats the 14 hour drive.
The good thing is my flying has not cost me a wife.

[Jaypratt]

A customers wife, RV7a, said she knew someone that might like flying, when I mentioned I did not have anyone to travel with. Carol and I have been flying high for 4 years now. She got her private licence this year. Really enjoys flying. She can't understand why so many wifes don't like to GO Flying.

RVs found me a girlfriend! And 100s of friends. I never thought about the people when I first started wanting an RV. I used to fly to OSH from my home Base in Grand Case, St Martin, by myself in my P35 Bonanza, Stay the week and not really connect with many people. I had very few airplane friends in the Caribbean. Carol meets lots of people and has added so much and expanded my horizions. Carol and RVs,,, what a combo!!

Carol found our new C180J 'Paul Revere' by networking around airports. She is like a puppy, never meets a stranger.

[Jetj01]

Back in 2001, I had flown my RV-4 to a small fly-in in North Texas. The fly-in was over and I was about to fly the 400 miles back home to New Mexico. Right as I was about to get in my RV-4, an RV-6 I had not seen before flew overhead emitting an unusual popping sound from the exhaust. The RV-6 landed and taxied up and parked right next to my RV-4. Sitting inside was a beautiful young lady with an older gentleman. Long story short, as the RV-6 had departed Dallas, TX and was enroute to a farm in kansas, the Vetterman exhaust on the engine had developed a crack by the cylinder exhaust port as they over flew our location causing concern in the cockpit, hence the precautionary landing at our location. As the pilot of the RV-6 worked on his exhaust problem, I volunteered my time keeping his daughter busy, including giving his daughter an aerobatic ride in my RV-4. Again, long story short, a year later she was my wife and he was my father-in-law.

Five years ago, while at the Land of Enchantment fly-in, my-father-in law was talking to Mr. Vetterman and joked with him, "Your exhaust cost me a daughter!"

That chance meeting with my now wife was eight years ago and it's GREAT being married in an RV flying family and having a wonderful wife who enjoys flying (and aerobatics) and a father-in-law who is also your best flying buddy and formation wingman! Incidentally, I enventually bought his RV-6 when he aquired his new Showplanes RV-8FB. So, I not only got his daughter, but his plane too!

True story