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11-16-2010, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Can you post the raw data?
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Steve "Flying Scotsman"
Santa Clarita, CA
PP-ASEL, ASES, Instrument Airplane
RV-7A N660WS flying!
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11-17-2010, 02:11 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia, QLD
Posts: 41
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RV7 Tail kit 2135
Hi everyone,
I know this thread is old but I will give it another kick.
RV 7 No.2135 purchase in April 2005 and 3 days ago by me. YAY to me lol!
Virtually an untouched kit. not even one rivet used. Still looks just like new.
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11-17-2010, 07:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Steve - you can grab the Excel file at http://pirkle.org/Completed_RVs.xls
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Portland, OR
RV-10 planning
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11-17-2010, 09:34 AM
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RV-7A #3138 8/07
so if 2135 was sold in 4/05, that's 1003 kits started (presumably) in 28 months, or about 36 RV-7 kits/mo.
(ETA...not sure what happened to the number 36 per month, but it wasn't there...weird).
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Santa Clarita, CA
PP-ASEL, ASES, Instrument Airplane
RV-7A N660WS flying!
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Last edited by Flying Scotsman : 11-18-2010 at 10:10 AM.
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11-17-2010, 11:11 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Rochester, MN
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When I work the numbers, I calculated about 10 completed RVs per week since 2005. Is that right? If so, where are all these RVers? I certainly don't see news of 10 completions per week on VAF. I realize not everyone that builds RVs is active on VAF, but I would have guessed a higher percentage of builders to be active on VAF than what these numbers indicate. Are there other builder websites that non-VAF RVers frequent for support, or can it be said that a good number of builders just don't interact online much?
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11-18-2010, 10:05 AM
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VAF Moderator / Line Boy
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
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Quote:
Originally Posted by diamond
When I work the numbers, I calculated about 10 completed RVs per week since 2005. Is that right? If so, where are all these RVers? I certainly don't see news of 10 completions per week on VAF. I realize not everyone that builds RVs is active on VAF, but I would have guessed a higher percentage of builders to be active on VAF than what these numbers indicate. Are there other builder websites that non-VAF RVers frequent for support, or can it be said that a good number of builders just don't interact online much?
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This is what I find both amazing and fun as I travel around the country and see RV's at just about every airport you find. Not everyone is on VAF - and that is fine. VAF is sometimes seen as this monolithic block - the Microsoft of RV'ing - when in fact, I see it as a place that folks can come and get news about the rest of the RV world. There many, many RV'ers (the demographics suggest that most are in their 50's) that just don't do much online, They have their local group of friends, pilots, builders...and that works for them. I so often find little vibrant communities of people that are barely aware of VAF. There are some other online communities that folks use, yes. But I think that a large number of folks are just "off the web"...and if they are out building and flying instead, it's hard to say there is anything wrong with that in my book... 
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Paul F. Dye
Editor at Large - KITPLANES Magazine
RV-8 - N188PD - "Valkyrie"
RV-6 (By Marriage) - N164MS - "Mikey"
RV-3B - N13PL - "Tsamsiyu"
A&P, EAA Tech Counselor/Flight Advisor
Dayton Valley Airpark (A34)
http://Ironflight.com
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11-18-2010, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Completion Percentage
I heard the average kit plane completion historically was 1 in 10 fly or a completion rate of 10%. Now I know Van's has a much higher completion rate, but part of that is with Van's kits, there are a number of people who wait for a kit builder to become disenchanted and swoop and purchase the kit at a discount and finish the kit. I have heard antidotally that 25 to 40% of Van's kits are completed, a much higher percentage. Most other kit manufacturers do not have as many people willing to pick up a "used kit" due to (my guess) the fewer number of kits and the fewer repeat builders. I completed my RV 7A 1.5 years ago and have not convinced my wife to let me buy another kit to work on. I want to keep flying and have ongoing maintenance but I would rather build than watch the 23 rerun of NCIS, Criminal Minds etc. I have reread my Michael Chrichen novels and in general would like to have a tail kit to hammer on versus watching stupid TV.
The bottom line is Van's has a much higher completion rate due to the amount of info online, many helpful people willing to help out and experienced with the Van's kits, Van's excellent technical support, and the cachet of being a Van's RV owner.
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11-18-2010, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 454
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Poll
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Originally Posted by DeltaRomeo
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Doug, You set up the poll in 2005 and we can only place our input once. The information is relatively static while the building process is dynamic.
A NEW poll with the same info would be good.  There was one started in August of this year : http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ad.php?t=61305 which seems to reflect more people have finished or are very close to completion.
It also is static and the idea of running the poll once a year or so might result in some more meaningful statistics. Thanks, George
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