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02-11-2014, 01:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Posts: 232
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RV-7 Z-EDD, Zimbabwe
Hi Everyone!
The journey begins for me, but in a uniquely frustrating way! A small delay to the ship meant that the kit got caught up in the Christmas traffic, and then the complete shutdown of almost all industry and transport that paralyses Southern Africa every January. I had arranged vacation so I could get started, but in the end I had to leave on a three week trip just 4 days before it arrived. So the pictures here were taken by my wife, and are still all I have seen of it. But its time to start getting excited again as I'm starting on the way home and should be cracking open the crates on Friday!
There is of course a silver lining to this delay. If it had arrived on time I might just have finished the HS by now, and then face having to rebuild it to comply with the SB!
Anyway, here are the photos of the arrival and unloading, African style! Never any shortage of labour to carry heavy stuff around here   1978862_10151912123891302_631259404_n by Ed Fleming, on Flickr  1978862_10151912123891302_631259404_n by Ed Fleming, on Flickr  1978862_10151912123891302_631259404_n by Ed Fleming, on Flickr
Last edited by Z-EDD : 10-01-2017 at 11:08 AM.
Reason: Fixing Photo links
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02-11-2014, 01:32 PM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 16,311
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Welcome to VAF!
Ed, welcome aboard the good ship VAF 
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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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02-11-2014, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Brasilia, DF Brazil
Posts: 46
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Great shop!!
Congratulations and all the success in your build!
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Considering building... In Brazil
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02-11-2014, 02:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Aubrey, TX
Posts: 362
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Welcome
Way cool...
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Dean Eiland
Aubrey, TX
Former Vice President EAA Chapter 1246
RV-9 (yes) N369RV
Mattituck IO-360, C/S Whirl Wind Prop, GRT, Digiflight II, Garmin SL30 & GTX 330 and Hotel Whisky Aux tanks, Bla Bla Bla
Flying
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02-11-2014, 04:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Posts: 229
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Congrats Ed! The shop looks like it has plenty of distractions (toys) to try to knock you off course. Enjoy the journey. Slow and steady wins the race. Good luck.
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Joe
RV-9A N525XC
Superior IO-320
Dynon HDX
Flying as of 5-4-18
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02-12-2014, 02:59 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Posts: 232
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Thanks guys. Yes a few distractions, but the E-flight RV-9 is pure inspiration, flies just as well as its big cousins. Hope one day to build new wings and tail to convert it to a-7, but then that would make it a distraction again... Oh dear, here we go, so many toys, so little time 
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Ed Fleming
RV-7- Flying as of 12/23/20
Harare, Zimbabwe
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02-12-2014, 07:12 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Louisville, Ga
Posts: 7,922
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Hi Ed..as an ex-pat Rhodesian myself, a big congratulations.
Is Zim pretty stable these days?
Best,
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Rv10 Sold
46 years ag pilot/CFI
Air Tractor 502/PT-6
Building RV-12, Wings, fuse, emp complete. FWF in progress.
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02-12-2014, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Estes Park, CO
Posts: 5,098
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Congratulations
Congratulations Ed.
Enjoy the build.
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Larry Larson
Estes Park, CO
wirejock at yahoo dot com
Donated 12/01/2021, plus a little extra.
RV-7A #73391, N511RV reserved (3,000+ hours)
Empennage, wings, fuse, finishing kit done. Working FWF
Disclaimer
I cannot be, nor will I be, held responsible if you try to do the same things I do and it does not work and/or causes you loss, injury, or even death in the process.
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02-12-2014, 11:19 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: chesapeake, va
Posts: 97
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Congrats
Nice looking shop Ed! Welcome aboard. We look forward to watching your progress. Keep banging those rivets and before you know it the pile of parts will be an airplane.
Dale
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RV-9A Airworthiness certificate Oct 2017,
first flight 11/18/17, testing completed Mar 2018.
Now free to move about the country.
http://dalesrv.blogspot.com
2020 Dues Paid
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02-12-2014, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Mesa, AZ
Posts: 77
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RV 7
Hi Ed. I am here in Harare too and have got a partially completed 7 kit waiting to ship from Mesa, AZ in the next few weeks. Hopefully it will be going into the same container that Isaac Levy is bringing out his completed aircraft in. Really looking forward to getting stuck into the build and boosting the RV population in Zim. If you don't mind send me your details and we can get together and talk RV's. I currently fly a bush baby (kit fox) that I built and a sonex out at Komani. Regards, John Sharples 0772 274 372
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