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View Poll Results: How Many different RV's Have You Flown?
0 28 12.44%
1 28 12.44%
2 33 14.67%
3 28 12.44%
4 22 9.78%
5-10 63 28.00%
11-20 11 4.89%
21-30 5 2.22%
>31 (too many to count...) 7 3.11%
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Old 01-21-2012, 08:45 AM
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......And I hate to say it, but the RV10s are a pretty nice airplane, that is, if you need to fly a truck :-)
...our 'truck' hauled 4 of us to Sebring and back yesterday, 800 miles total, in pure comfort and gobs of elbow room for two of the 6' 4" brothers...did it at 200 MPH TAS as well.

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Old 01-22-2012, 07:27 PM
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More than 140 new planes test flown. Mike
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Old 01-22-2012, 07:38 PM
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More than 140 new planes test flown. Mike
and we have a Winner!
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Old 01-22-2012, 07:41 PM
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3 total.
My RV9A
RV6A (transition training) and an RV7
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:14 PM
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I'm a slow building nobody, but I did attend Van's sheet metal school when Art Chard was teaching it at Van's home in North Plains Ore.
Ken Scott was a newby. It was his first class as a teacher's assistant!
When Art found out I was going to sleep in my car, he put me up for the night and fed me an elk steak he had hunted with a bow!
Van gave all us students a ride and some stick time in the NEW RV-6A, and my ride had a little bonus, we fueled at another airport.
So the prototype RV-6a was my first.
I did get a back seat ride with Rich Gross and later with Pete Idol, both RV-4s.
The RV-8 was just the ticket for me, I just couldn't bring myself to drill the first hole in my RV-4 tail kit!!. I sold the tail kit to Pete Idol (after about 8 years and a divorce, remarriage etc...) and got an RV-8. Somehow I was able to dig right in. Now It's at the airport getting final assembly....who knew?
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Old 01-23-2012, 08:29 AM
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The "truck" comment was just a bit of fun, hopefully taken in that light. If you are the kind of guy that likes to travel, and you could have just one plane, the RV10 would be really hard to beat.
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Old 01-23-2012, 10:20 AM
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Default how many Rv's flown

3 - RV-6's
2 - RV-7's
1 - RV-8A
1 - RV-9A
1 - Rv-10

Thats about it for me and they were all fun.

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Old 01-23-2012, 11:42 AM
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RV-1 Not yet!
RV-3 One (hope to make it two)
RV-4 Three
RV-6 Two
RV-7 One
RV-8 Sixteen Including one built by a "Rocket Scientist"
RV-10 One
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Old 01-23-2012, 01:29 PM
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RV-6 Two (includes "demo" ride at Oshkosh with Mike Seager way back when)
RV-6A One (thanks, B-square...I also bucked a bunch of rivets on this bird)
RV-8 Two (thanks, Paul)
RV-9A One (I have officially about 12 hours of PIC in a friend's RV-9A)

So that's 6 that I can recollect. There may be more.
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Old 01-23-2012, 09:31 PM
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Hey Paul...so if Rockets count, do Super 6's and Super 8's?

If so, I'm at 8:

RV-6
RV-S6
RV-7A (first flight)
RV-8
RV-9
RV-9A
F1 Rocket
HRII

Cheers,
Bob

PS: How's the skiing in Mammoth this week...epic, I'll bet!
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