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Old 12-14-2014, 11:49 AM
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The red RV-6B prototype built largely by Art had the emp. stabilizer skins mach. C.S. After quite a few years there were smoking rivets in the rear spar that had to be repair numerous times until it was retired.
Is this the RV-6 that's on display in the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville?
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Old 12-14-2014, 12:04 PM
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Is this the RV-6 that's on display in the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville?
S/N 001 Proudly sitting under the wingtip of the HK-1 "Spruce Goose".

My picture from 2012 -

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Old 12-14-2014, 03:14 PM
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S/N 001 Proudly sitting under the wingtip of the HK-1 "Spruce Goose".

My picture from 2012 -

Yup, that is the one.

It began life as a trigear. It was the prototype for the Nigerian Air Beetle project.
It got converted to a tail dragger in the late 90's and served with Mike Seager as a transition training airplane until it was involved in an "incident" at OSH when a new Lancair pilot was a bit behind his airplane.

It was later repaired enough to allow it to be put on static display.
A lot of people did tail dragger transition training in that airplane... my self included.
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Old 12-14-2014, 03:26 PM
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The red RV-6B prototype built largely by Art had the emp. stabilizer skins mach. C.S. After quite a few years there were smoking rivets in the rear spar that had to be repair numerous times until it was retired.
The .032 VS and HS skins on my RV-6 were machine countersunk and it's been flying for over 21.5 years. There are no smoking rivets.
Red Marron's -6 was built at the same time and by the same method with the same results.

Having said that, I recommend the dimple method because it's easier to accomplish consistent results.
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