The prize

[Craig23]

Hi Ken,

Your eloquent writing mirrors the same way I felt as I neared the end of my 8 project. I had been working on it for 9 years and just got tired of it. I kept going more out of stubbornness and a refusal to quit than actual desire to work on the kit. My malaise would wax and wane, and the project eventually got to the point where I flew it for the first time last year. Keep at it on your own schedule and think of the day when you can take your wife and wonderful children flying in the machine you built.

Best of luck,

[Bushcaddy]

Hi Ken,

You don't know me and I don't know you and I didn't build an RV, I built something else...but I spend a lot of time on this site because the information is great. I did finish my plane (took me 5 years) and I flew it...I also crashed it one week after the first flight (Oct, 2010). My intial thought was that I couldn't do this again and I was intent on cutting it up and selling the pieces. My daughter, upon hearing this, grabbed me and said listen...when I was growing up you always pushed me to do the right thing, you always told me it was OK to fail but it was never OK to quit. It made me look in the mirror..and ask myself I am just a bag of wind or I am going to walk the talk?. I waited a few months and in mid January of this year I started on the rebuild and it turned out to not be so bad if I compartmentalized and focused on fixing one thing at a time...I have actually enjoyed every aspect of the rebuild and I will be back in the air by the end of May. My point to you is never give up, I think you are on the right track to just go out to the project with the intent to do something small...drill 3 holes...connect one wire terminal...those small moves will lead you in the right direction. Your wife is a very smart woman and you will finish this airplane. All my best to you and your family...

[smokyray]

Great message Ken!

However comma, the real prize for all of us is the Easter message

Smokey

[kens_cockpit]

I appreciate all of the kind comments and encouragement.

Before this post, I hadn't posted here for a long time. Principally that was because early on I would post questions. Questions arise as a reult of problems. Problems occur in the course of building. So when the building slows down the questions dry up and the posts disappear.

However putting this post out there and sensing the encouragement has given me a sense of reconnection with this community. I doubt I will ever be a supermoderator but I expect I will have some questions to ask soon as I start to be more consistent with the building again.

Happy flying and persistence in building and post Easter blessings to you all.