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01-07-2015, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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has anyone flown RV3 and -12 both can put some flying characteristics similarity if any ?? ( sorry slight off topic  )
thx
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01-07-2015, 05:53 PM
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Thanks for the feedback
Great feedback everyone, thank you, just what I was looking for, and I didn't get flamed, what a great group. 
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01-07-2015, 07:30 PM
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Bill,
The Porsche 914 was a VW in a Zoot Suit!
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Rich
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01-07-2015, 08:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RFSchaller
Bill,
The Porsche 914 was a VW in a Zoot Suit!
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Rich
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The 914/6 was a hoot (not a zoot)..to drive. Much like a -12!!
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01-07-2015, 09:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hthaman
has anyone flown RV3 and -12 both can put some flying characteristics similarity if any ?? ( sorry slight off topic  )
thx
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Yes - I have plenty of time in both. Two very nice airplanes for their missions - and two totally different missions. Neither of them have any bad habits that I could find.
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01-07-2015, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Marshall TX (KASL)
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You know, you could put a 914 emblem on an RV12 - people might think it was a turbo ROTAX but it would be about the character...
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01-07-2015, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Southern California
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The Volks Porsche...
The 914 was also called the Sun Porsche. Kinda like the C-150 with skylights.
The 914 was sold in Europe as a Volkswagen (the two seater 411), but the 2.0 engine was only available in the US and Canada. Bigger engine was more peppy! Think C-152
As a mid-engine, the 914 was also very stable, easy to handle and a pretty safe entry to the fast sports car world. Say, that DOES sound like a Cessna 150!
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Flying a 150 as prep for an RV12 is like driving a 70s Ford Pinto as prep for a 70s Porsche 914. Similar horsepower but...
(The 914 was highly underrated. It did not have the power of the 911's of the day but it was light, sprightly, with good acceleration and great handling. would easily best a 911 in autocross. Designed to be a less expensive, fully capable entry-level sports car. (Analogy: Miata) It was "looked down on" by the Porsche cognoscenti for its different engine. I've owned 2 of them and an '84 911 Cabrio. In many (not all) ways I think the RV12 is the 914 of RVs.)
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01-07-2015, 10:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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Originally Posted by Ironflight
Yes - I have plenty of time in both. Two very nice airplanes for their missions - and two totally different missions. Neither of them have any bad habits that I could find.
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thanks Paul.
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01-08-2015, 06:43 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by comfortcat
The 914 was also called the Sun Porsche. Kinda like the C-150 with skylights.
The 914 was sold in Europe as a Volkswagen (the two seater 411), but the 2.0 engine was only available in the US and Canada. Bigger engine was more peppy! Think C-152
As a mid-engine, the 914 was also very stable, easy to handle and a pretty safe entry to the fast sports car world. Say, that DOES sound like a Cessna 150!
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I was spinning wrenches for VW back in the 70's and when we went to VW schools, the training films were always started by a quick clip of all the current VW models driving by the camera on a test track. I remember the VW914 was included in the line up. We were told that the US was the only country that the 914 was sold by Porsche. Anyone ever drive a 914/6? Now that was a jack rabbit! Anyone remember the 912 E?
So this is what they mean by thread drift? 
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01-08-2015, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: High Wycombe, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by comfortcat
The 914 was sold in Europe as a Volkswagen (the two seater 411), but the 2.0 engine was only available in the US and Canada. Bigger engine was more peppy! Think C-152
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Not wishing to drift the thread to far away from the topic but the VW 411 was actually completely different car - a 'sedan' in fact.
The Porsche 914 was marketed in Europe as the, er, Porsche 914 (or VW-Porsche 914)
There was the VW Karmann Ghia but that was Beetle based and before the 914 era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_914
With a fair few hours in both, I think there is not much in common between the C150 and RV-12. Poles apart in handling, speed, visibility and pretty much every other parameter you can think of.
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