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Old 01-21-2011, 10:56 PM
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... Full Classic Aero Designs "Aviator" interior and custom leather covered fuel pump container including cup holders.
Did you go with Leather/Vinyl option for the side panels or their Ultra Leather?

You have one incredible looking plane! Great Job!
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Old 01-22-2011, 09:17 AM
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I went with leather seats, and most of the sides are Vinyl. Per Aeroclassics advice. The leather or Ultra-leather do not take to the contours very well. There isn't much of a difference unless you are under florescent lighting which makes everything look a different color.

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Old 01-22-2011, 11:55 AM
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Is the passenger stick really shorter than the pilot's or is that an illusion?

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Old 01-22-2011, 12:18 PM
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It is about 1.25" shorter, and removable..

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Old 01-22-2011, 02:38 PM
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Default 4500'

We have several CJ's that operate out of here. Even an L-39. Nice and wide.

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How long is your runway? May have to do an out/in here soon.
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Old 01-22-2011, 04:19 PM
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We have several CJ's that operate out of here. Even an L-39. Nice and wide.
Approach speed is 170 knots over the fence. 7K' is the bare minimum, and even that can get exciting.
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Old 01-22-2011, 05:36 PM
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Approach speed is 170 knots over the fence. 7K' is the bare minimum, and even that can get exciting.
What kind of CJ or L-39 flies down final at 170?
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Old 01-22-2011, 06:21 PM
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What kind of CJ or L-39 flies down final at 170?
No CJ or L-39... need out/in flight time. Was going to try and swing a peak at this RV.
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Old 01-22-2011, 06:42 PM
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Default What process is involved...

...in custom building a panel that looks like that? And am I correct in understanding that the side panels are from Aero Classics, but are not available for the RV8? If that's the case, what would be involved in a custom build of side panels?

Thanks to Chris, I've had my eyes opened to how much difference a really well done interior can make to the overall impression of an aircraft - and I had come to accept that there was not really all that much that could be done to the traditional, spartan interiors other than paint them milspec gray... no criticism intended of other aircraft, but I've never seen a cockpit, production, experimental or otherwise that looks like *that* before, and I like it. A lot. Way to set the bar!!
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Old 01-22-2011, 07:22 PM
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This is definitely a gorgeous airplane. I don't want to take anything away from it as an airplane.

I must point out, though, that the photograph is accomplished with an artistic technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR) manipulation, which gives it its ethereal, "unreal" look.
I must protest (and I realize its futile as this is universally misused on the internet):
Its not HDR... it is LDR with tone-mapped exposure levels. Jpeg and pretty much any standard internet image that has been tone-mapped is by definition NOT HDR. You need special viewers to slice dynamic range to see true HDR images as most computer monitors can't display the true dynamic range of an HDR image.

NICE plane, though!
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