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08-15-2013, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 321
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Time to build RV-7, Pink Slip in hand!
Let me start by saying I could have done it without this site. BUT, it would have been suck central. I got the kit a day or so before 4-1-2012. Today 8-15-2013 it will fly, so says Mel Asberry. Yeah, yeah, that's no turtle. Others have done it in waaaay less time, and some a little more. Given Mel did have a few statements like "I'm not releasing you until you show me where the right wing is..." (Kidding, Mel is VERY through). So it's done... Not! Lots more to finish but it will fly. I'm anal and it will never be done probably. So back to my time. I posted last year as I was zooming right along that I thought I would be done in just a few months. Little did I know how long EVERYTHING takes even on a quick build. Here is the thread and the comments. I was only off a year, gimmy a break.
http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ad.php?t=86886
I have in hand a tail wheel endorsement and an RV transition "endorsement" from Alex D. at RV Training. So all that's left is to make this thing go where it was meant to be. Fear not VAFers I will come back, no one has ever gotten stuck up there as far as I know.
Thanks a bunch DR for the site which has made life much easier. Thanks Mel for answering all my questions over that year I've been calling, you are a super DAR. Thank to Van, and last but not least that you God for giving us the knowledge to fly with your angels and return to our families at will.
PS My wife cried when I told her we passed the inspection. Sweet....
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Bob
RV-10 QB Here 8-25-19
RV-7
My brain shows a remarkable capacity to not willingly accept information that it considered useless.
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08-15-2013, 08:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 3,351
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Congrats and a great job, to your wife as well.
It took me 15 months from the start to the first flight which included the paint. It was a nearly a 7-day a week effort to get it going but I enjoyed every minute of every day and it has been even a greater joy since we finished it.
Happy flying days ahead
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Mehrdad
N825SM RV7A - IO360M1B - SOLD
N825MS RV14A - IO390 - Flying
Dues paid
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08-15-2013, 10:04 PM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,420
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Congratulations!!
Bob, congrats on a job well done 
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011 
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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08-15-2013, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Western US
Posts: 98
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Congrats!!!! It's a beauty! You built it FAST and that yellow engine case is fantastic.
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08-16-2013, 06:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ridgeland, SC
Posts: 2,589
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Way to go Bob!!
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Tom Swearengen, TS Flightlines LLC, AS Flightlines
Joint Venture with Aircraft Specialty
Teflon Hose Assemblies for Experimentals
Proud Vendor for RV1, Donator to VAF
RV7 Tail Kit Completed, Fuse started-Pay as I go Plan
Ridgeland, SC
www.tsflightlines.com, www.asflightlines.com
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08-16-2013, 06:38 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hicks Airfield, Fort Worth,Texas
Posts: 1,728
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sanwitch
Good Going Bob!
Please come over to Hicks real soon and let us have a look 
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Jay Pratt VAF #2
RV Central - Builder Assistance
Paul Revere, Borrowed Horse, & Shooter
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08-16-2013, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sammamish, WA
Posts: 208
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Congrats Bob ! And you got er done before September ! 
All kidding aside, the point is you got it ready for Safe Operation ! Now time to get her in the air ! Good luck
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Chad
Sammamish, WA
RV-7 Standard Build - Tip UP
Flying ! As of 032913
Superior IO-375, WW200RV, Single Lightspeed, SkyView, GTN
http://www.704ch.com/
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08-16-2013, 11:00 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
Posts: 9,500
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Congratulations on the pink slip. Now when do you think you'll finish the airplane?
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Dan Horton
RV-8 SS
Barrett IO-390
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08-16-2013, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: KRTS
Posts: 1,798
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Jeez man, do you have a job?
Congrats!
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Next?, TBD
IAR-823, SOLD
RV-8, SOLD
RV-7, SOLD
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