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03-26-2023, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ashland, OR
Posts: 3,534
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It flew!!
I got to fly it!
Just a short hop over to Siskiyou Co. to tow gliders, but this is the first time the RV-8 has flown since November. I did a mod on the lower cowl, reducing the cowl exit area to 37 in^2, and installing an electric cowl flao.
The paint on the lower cowl never did stick rigght - I made a mistake of some kind years ago with the activated UV Smoothprime and it did not bond correctly, so my lower cowl has had big blisters for years. So this winter, I finally took care of it.
Anyway, it felt great to get to fly it again. Too soon to say anything about the change in temps from the cowl exit change, since it was 26F at 5000 ft, so not exactly a representative test for cooling.
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Aeronautical Engineer
Becoming a repeat offender! Starting another RV-8 that will have the composite tapered wings
RV-8 N825RV
IO-360 A1A
WW 200RV
"The Magic Carpet" Flying since Sept. 2009
Hobbs 725
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1/4 share in 1959 C-182B (tow plane)
LS6-15/18W sailplane SOLD
bought my old LS6-A back!! 
VAF donation Dec 2022
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03-26-2023, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,691
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Another .9 hours on RPP (Rust Prevention Program). We are weather locked here in the Intermountain West couldn't go anywhere for weeks.
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Не имей сто рублей, а имей сто друзей.
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03-26-2023, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Huntsville, AL USA
Posts: 655
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Chicken Killer Escapes to Tennessee
George the Jack Russell mix is a sweet dog - but he apparently can't abide chickens. His owner surrendered him to the shelter in North Carolina. I picked him up Sunday at the Statesville Regional Airport (KSVH) near Charlotte and flew him to the Maury County, TN airport (KMRC) near Columbia to meet the folks from the rescue organization.
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Dan Langhout
2023 =VAF= Dues PAID . . . . .
RV-7 N528DP slow build
First Flight July 26th, 2014
969 hours and counting . . . .
39 Pilots N Paws Flights
Based at Moontown (3M5)
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03-26-2023, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Clarkston, MI
Posts: 996
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An Award Worth Sharing
On Saturday evening EAA Chapter 113 held our annual Awards Banquet, where I received a Completion Award plaque for my RV-8. Normally I wouldn't share that as newsworthy, but I laughed hard when I flipped the plaque horizontally and examined the back. Just what I need... another project! Geez it's always something with that airplane mutter mutter mutter... 
(If you look closely, I'd already laid out nail holes for the fix before I took the photos. Anything to avoid working on the wheel fairings.) |
03-27-2023, 05:11 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 11,761
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AFTER ALL.........
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Originally Posted by goatflieg
On Saturday evening EAA Chapter 113 held our annual Awards Banquet, where I received a Completion Award plaque for my RV-8. Normally I wouldn't share that as newsworthy, but I laughed hard when I flipped the plaque horizontally and examined the back. Just what I need... another project! Geez it's always something with that airplane mutter mutter mutter...
(If you look closely, I'd already laid out nail holes for the fix before I took the photos. Anything to avoid working on the wheel fairings.) |
The RV-8 IS aerobatic. I would consider hanging it like it is.
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century. Over 1,100 certifications accomplished. Discount for Veterans, Law Enforcement, Fire Fighters.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1, Lifetime EAA.
Recipient of EAA Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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03-27-2023, 07:09 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 272
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Logged 30.5 hours towards the ATP.
Dropped by Uncle John's Flyin and had a nice chat with Skip and Pat on Friday while logging 6 hours before getting serious about logging some time and flew 12.1 on Saturday and 12.7 on Sunday.
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Bought the -10 (Thanks Carl!)
Built the Hangar
Currently building the -8
www.N7ZK.com
"How's it feel to be the fastest plane in the sky? You were spanking two Cirrus planes, a Mooney, and another plane. I took screen shots" - Quote from the best wife in the world.
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03-27-2023, 08:15 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Newport, TN
Posts: 7,653
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Started work on the VS rear spar!
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03-27-2023, 11:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brighton, Colorado
Posts: 518
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I moved a friend’s beautiful RV-8 to the hangar at my house. I flew on the wing of another friend and his passenger took a bunch of pics. Sadly, the reason I’m flying this plane is that my friend passed away last fall and I have sold the plane for the estate. I moved the plane to my hangar to take care of some transponder issues.
I hadn’t soloed an RV-8 until last week. The insurance company accepted my 400-ish hours of RV-3 time and 16k+ total time as adequate so I gave it a whirl. I maintain that the RV-8 is kinda a family truckster compared to my RV-3, but it’s still pretty darned nice. I think if the buyer had been unreasonable in the pre-buy, I would have bought the plane for myself!
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Brighton, Colorado (CO12)
RV-3 IO-320
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03-28-2023, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Edgewater, FL. X50
Posts: 1,213
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Originally Posted by Brian Perry
Flew back from a wonderful week in the Bahamas. I flew from Michigan to Governor's Harbor, Eleuthera where we rented a house on the beach last weekend. My wife and I had a great vacation, saw a SpaceX launch from the air near Cape Canaveral, and visited friends in Greenville, SC on the way home. Another great experience due to a decision years ago to build an RV.
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Brian, I recognized the runway from the picture posted on the front page. That runway is so rough I thought I had a flat tire when I landed.
We enjoyed our stay there a few years ago but still prefer Hope Town. Limited on restaurants on Eleuthera. |
03-29-2023, 12:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 544
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I took Friday off so I could do a long weekend of airshow practice in the RV-6 with the largest civilian formation display team in the southern hemisphere.
I'm paired up with another RV-6 as a synchro pair. Let's just say that opposing passes are a lot of fun when they're briefed, risk-managed, and properly timed.
I got to try out my shiny new instrument rating on the way home. It was surprisingly enjoyable to be insufferably smug in a room full of VFR pilots on the last day, all staring at their iPads wondering if they'll get home or have to spend the night in a country town, while I'm projecting a cheshire-cat grin and filing. 
(they all found appropriately sized holes and got home in due course. You can only begin to imagine how tedious I'd have been if they'd had to deck it somewhere and wait )
Pic: Arriving over the Sydney Basin at 7000' without a problem in the world
- mark
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