Things non-builders have asked you about your project

[Mel]

Originally Posted by crabandy

From the local airplane expert.....RV7 hmmmm how does that compare to an RV5?

This reminds me of the young couple eating at the airport restaurant.

Th young girl asked about the young man's airplane.
He looked out on the ramp and said, "You see that airplane? That's a C-130. Mine is a C-150!"

[Rupester]

Question:" How many hours did it take to build it?"
Answer: "About 2500 hrs shoptime assembling and fabricating, and about 1000 looking for that tool I just set down."

[rjcthree]

Terry, I'm with you on that. Solution for me - rather than get some simple 5S going _ is two or three of everything. And why is it always the 7/16"?

Best Question: after a couple of the standards - "are you effing crazy?!"

The only answer I've got: "quite possibly".

[Moondog]

My wife, Catherine, after posing for a picture next to our friend Jack?s new plane, pointed to my own -7A in progress in a small corner of Jack's hangar.

Catherine: So what are you working on today?
Me: The bellcrank.
Catherine: What is a bellcrank?
Me: It works the elevators.
Catherine (to Jack): David?s airplane is going to have elevators. Yours only has stairs.

[Michael White]

Originally Posted by ColoRv

Ive heard this one a couple of times:

Is that thing remote control?

A: "Yes. My brain sends a message to my hand, which moves the stick. Considering where my head's been at the past couple of years, that's about as remote as it gets..."

[Michael White]

Q: When are you going to be finished?

A: When I run out of parts in the box...

[JoeB]

Originally Posted by airguy

I don't know how much mine is going to cost me yet - it's still adding up.

Every time my wife sees something that she wants, she gets it. If I start to argue with her about it, she just says "You're building an airplane. I win."

She's right, of course...

..................Yea I have lost a ton of arguments thats to that

[ppilotmike]

Q1: "Did you say your plane will be a FOUR-seater!?"
A1: "Yup."
Q2: "You gonna risk taking your family up in it?"
A2: "I'll probably take friends up first, in case something goes terribly wrong."

[Derek]

After transporting my Corby Starlet to the airport and completing the final assembly after a 5 1/2 year build, my hangar neighbour came over to view my pride and joy, he asked me how much did it cost to build, I told him about $25 K, he then asked how much are they to buy, I told him $25K. He paused for a second and looked at me bewildered and said "keen" . He couldnt understand why anyone would waste 5 1/2 years building an aeroplane when you can just buy one for the same price. Some people just dont get it.

[PerfTech]

....A few months ago I was in process of installing my new Whirlwind C/S and had removed the old prop. This very young guy walked up to my hanger with his cute little blond girlfriend on his arm. I was in the back of my hanger and with the echo, I could hear everything he was telling her. In an obvious effort to impress he said "Now this here is a very fast jet! You can tell because it has no propeller and has these air inlet thingies in the front. I flew several of these jets, taking photos when I was an security adviser in Afghanistan."...She said to him, "Gee whiz Tommy, you are so smart and so brave. How did I ever get so lucky?" And they say blonds are dumb! Allan...