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03-21-2006, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Midland, Michigan 3BS Hanger 4B and sometimes at home
Posts: 159
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human mechanic
I started with motorcycles, was an A&P thru college, now Im in private practice as a Physical Therapist. I guess once a mechanic always a mechanic
Pat
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Patrick Howe
Citabria 7KCAB - sold
RV8A FB - flying
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03-21-2006, 08:12 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 165
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RV9-A Builder
Hi all,
I'm retired and living and building off of SS. I'd like all of you folks to keep on working and paying your SS tax so my check don't stop and I can keep on building my 9-A.
Actually that is not quite true, I am on SS but I also do some farming up in North East Nebraska. I have a VERY understanding wife, four grown children and fifteen grand children ages form 6 to 21.
My 9-A should be finished this summer. It has an 0-320 D1A with a CS Prop and all steam guages. When she is finished it will be aircraft number 13. My first flying machine was a Benson gyrocopter in 1962 or so.
N-HS52 res
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03-21-2006, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 416
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Not officially building yet, but gettin' ready to - trying to decide between -7 and -9 (please! don't confuse me any more than I am! DR talked to my father-in-law and now he's steering me to a -7 when a -9 was what I was planning on)... So I'm just buying tools for the time being.
Computer geek - C# programmer, but want to do embedded systems if I get the chance (EFIS would be way cool). I play with PICs and digital electronics here and there.
I really want to do what FLTENG and Bob Axsom do, but alas, it doesn't pay the bills. I got to go up and see what fehdxl does in a -135 when I was 17 (JROTC) - now that's cool! We refueled the Thunderbirds over Nebraska somewhere.
Wife is a kindergarten teacher (so she knows how to deal with me). We're trying for rugrats so I gotta build quick or wait 20 years...
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Matt Redmond
Denton, TX (KDTO) - VAF #510
Got the Bug & Wife's Signoff
RV-9 Tip-Up, Empennage & Wing
Last edited by mdredmond : 03-21-2006 at 09:16 PM.
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03-21-2006, 10:38 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Central California
Posts: 388
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Another Engineer
I'm a contract Mechanical Engineer. Wife works too. Dinks (at home). Payin' for it as I go.
Bill Jepson
RV-10 tail feathers done
working on the tailcone.
20B rotary for power.
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03-22-2006, 12:16 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 75
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RV-9A Carpenter
I'm a carpenter/General Contractor in Alberta Canada. I was an Air Traffic Controller 28 years ago. Did that for nearly 7 years. Got my ppl 30 years ago and quit flying when I quit ATC. I was in retail for 8 years and have been in the trades for the last 20 years. I found out that I love working with my hands and building things. Cabinets, houses, schools, etc. I freind took me flying last year and that ride cost me big time. Got my license back, took my night rating and now I'm about to start on a RV9A. My freindly banker agreed to give me a loan, so if I need to I can keep on building. Just have to find the time. Need about 30 hrs in a day.
I'm married (33yrs) and have 2 kids in university. My oldest son died 4 years ago. He would have loved to fly. My daughter loves it and my other son can take it or leave it.
Russel Koch
Medicine Hat, Alberta
RV 9 Emp in shop
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03-22-2006, 07:11 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Ft Myers, FL
Posts: 276
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I am an orthopaedic surgeon in the Tampa Bay area. Airplane building goes hand in hand with my profession as I get to use power tools in both.
I am a lucky guy in that my wife, while basically a white knuckle flier understands how important this is to me and she humors me. My son, our youngest is away at college but when he comes home on breaks helps buck rivets and hang the engine.
When I was but a wee lad of 13 my dad brought home a basket case Stinson SR-5 and started restoring it. I earned money for Boy Scout camp by sandblasting the fuselage. Dad has died and the Stinson still isn't complete. My brother and I are still struggling with what to do with it.
Obviously this airplane building thing is hereditary.
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03-22-2006, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Midlothian, TX
Posts: 169
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I am on a second career after 23 years flying a desk in the Air Force working in information systems. I still work in information systems as a program manager and spend my evenings and weekends building a 7A. My military retirement is paying for it, so it may take a while! Just so long as it is paid for before my next retirement. 
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03-22-2006, 08:55 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Deadwood, SD
Posts: 89
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Until 1997 I was USAF: B-52G, T-38 IP, B-1B
Then I wrote software for this company www.invtools.com for a few years.
Now I produce and sell licensed Robot replicas from the 1965 TV show, "Lost in Space". (no kidding) www.lostinspacerobot.com
MikeJ
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03-22-2006, 09:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Severna Park, Maryland
Posts: 446
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What I Do
20 years in the U.S. Navy serving 2 tours in P-3 Orion squadrons as a Tactical Coordinator, plus some time in the Surface Nav, and staffs. Retired and now work for a next-gen telecom equipment company doing -- you guessed it -- IT stuff. I sit in a cube for 8 hours/day. (Man, do I envy you guys who fly for a living) But it pays the mortgage, is putting the kids through college and most important, allows me to fly a Citabria and build an RV-7! I'm halfway through the 7. I'm hoping to retire -- again -- again in a few years, move to an airport community, where I can fly an ultralight low and slow every day and boom/zoom/travel with the wife to exotic locations in the RV.
Last edited by flybill7 : 03-22-2006 at 09:03 AM.
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03-22-2006, 09:17 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Canton, GA
Posts: 15
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Like many others I'm retired USAF. I started out navigating B-52's and then quickly switched to KC-135R's. That aircraft still holds 16 time-to-climb world records.
I'm currrently working as a network administrator/engineer for state government (I just can't get enough government).
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