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You might be an RV builder if.....

RV_7A

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Add any phases you feel might be appropriate.

1.You're walking up to your office building from the parking garage and you find your pocket is full of clecos from the building session the night before.

2.Your UPS guy knows your dogs name.

3.You have Ebay set up to send you email when a hot piece of avionics appears for sale.

4.You have ever passed on sex so you could finish the last few rivets in your wing skin.

5.You'll skip dinner to go see another builders progress in person.

6.You keep your Spruce Catalog in your Laptop case while traveling for your job.
 
10. if you tape every cable show about RVs, only to realize later that they were about Recreational Vehicles.


guilty ...


Lee
 
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11. You have been told to your face you are crazy (and they truly thought you were) when you tell friends and family that you are building an airplane.

Steve
RVBYSDI
 
12. You have a 3 car garage and both your cars are parked in the driveway.

13. Your living room furniture consists of a set of wings and tail feathers.

14. Your friends have given up calling to see if you're avilable to do something.
 
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15. You pause in the jetway to examine the rivets on the outside of the 737 before you board.
 
16. While using the portable toilets (anywhere) you look at the quality of the Pop rivets holding the thing together.

17. You have Van's on the speed dial of your phone. (Glenn Brasch does)

18. You've washed a pocket load of Clecos with your clothes.

19. You spend time doing stupid shit like this instead of building:)

Darwin N. Barrie
Out to the hangar now!!!
 
20: 8 of the 10 speed dial numbers in your cell phone are RV buddies (me: wife and Mom make up the other two)

21: You have a cat named 'Cleco' (Bob Avery) or a dog named 'RV' (Red Marron).
 
22. You think of ways to repair or modify things around the house using your newly learned aluminum working techniques and or tools.
 
DeltaRomeo said:
21: You have a cat named 'Cleco' (Bob Avery) or a dog named 'RV' (Red Marron).

23. You name your new puppy "Torque" right after you pick up your torque wrench to tighten an AN-3 nut. (That would be me.)
 
You might be an RV builder if....

#29. You've ever drilled into your wife's finger or hand.

#30. The License Plate on your car has your N number

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Rick6a said:
#27. The builder's epiphany: You wake up in the middle of the night with an answer to a problem that has been vexing you.


31. [corollary to #27 above] You wake in the middle of the night and realize you just had a nightmare about your recently and lovinglycreated RV scattered in pieces at the airport after you forgot to tie it down in before a windstorm.
 
You might be an RV builder if

#32 While attending the neighborhood block party you are introduce as the guy with the airplane in his garage.
 
#33 Your pool table holds finished airplane parts instead of folded laundry.

#34 Most of your wardrobe consists of T-shirts with RVs on them.

#35 You have planes on the brains.

Roberta
 
#36. You have horizontal stabilizers tucked behind your couch.
#37. There is a rudder under your bed.
#38. You get mad because all your Sharpie's are missing.
#39. You cut up Van's calendar and put the pictures up all over the place.
#40. You sleep with a rivet gun under your pillow. "Just in case."
 
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You might be an RV-9A builder if

#41 You walk around the airport staring at Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcrafts and Mooneys to see if they use AEX wedges on the trailing edges of ailerons, flaps, elevators and rudders.

#42 You feel much better about your own project, knowing that Socata uses dozens of pop rivets in the tail of the Trinidad.
 
43- The only photo in your wallet is of your RV.
44- you keep a mini drill bit gage in your pocket at all times.
Frank
 
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You might be an RV builder if

#46 While reading this list you comment that these people are sick! Then you realize you are one of them and share the same illness.

Jeff vaughan
7A
 
You might be an RV builder:

If you think you can sneak an airplane past your wife if you bring it in one piece at a time.

If your arguing about engine choices on-line while working on your elevator.
 
#47. If your truck has a license plate that looks similar to this:

 
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A Couple more

48. You have ever riveted something inside of a structure.

49. You look for usable plane stuff in every store (don't laugh-stainless steel T fittings at Pet's Mart for $1.49 aquarium department)

50. You've had to order stuff from Van' or Spruce more than 3 times in one week.

51. You've convinced the UPS guy that he should build an RV.

52. Your airpark neighbors think your plane is "cute."

Darwin N. Barrie
Chandler AZ
 
53. the first thing any of your friends ask is "how's the plane"?

Mark Mercier
Vancouver, BC
RV-7A C-GQRV reserved
 
Jerry Kinman

#54. Your email address is [email protected]
#55. Your bathroom library consists of RVators and Sport Aviation
#56, You always carry a fuel cap opener on your keychain

N88GK Slow-build RV-8 120 hrs since first flt and still as good as it gets.
 
RV7Guy said:
50. You've had to order stuff from Van' or Spruce more than 3 times in one week.

Darwin N. Barrie
Chandler AZ

The correlary to this is that at least one of those orders was for $0.99 and shipping is $10 (or more).
 
57. if you think your pilot friend is a sicko for building a Glassair.
58. if only 50% of the rivets in your tail kit are originals.
59. if the main concern when buying a house is the size of the garage.
60. if you watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and when cousin Eddie says "Clark, that there is an RV," you expect to see an airplane in the driveway.
 
61. Every time you get pissed off in traffic, you dream how you are never going to have this problem when you're flying your RV.

62. You justify building your plane because it will get far better gas mileage than your Truck.
 
Your hangar neighbors think you sleep with the plane.
Your good sweats are the ones covered in proseal.
Your reading material consist of contruction plans and the Spruce catalog.

Philip Mercier RV-4,RV-7A
Vancouver BC.
 
You might be a RV builder if...

63- You find aluminum shavings in your bed sheets.
64- Your flying buddy is telling you about his new Cessna and you are doing your best to hide that little thought bubble in your mind that is screaming out "You poor bast&$d...why would you buy such a thing?"
65- When an experimental aircraft gets bent, you recognize the personal tragedy of the aircraft's loss...all those hours of labor and dreams. You are there to help the builder through the mourning period as he deals with the loss of something that he can't quite express...you recognize that the RV is more than a collection of parts.
66-Your 5-year old daughter knows her way around the shop and you have no issue with letting her "play" with a block of wood and a drill for clecoe practice.
67- That same 5-year old daughter spreads her arms and forms a human shield between the project and an unruly neighborhood kid as she warns him to stay away from the plane. (I love my little girl...very proud of her at that moment )
 
and the list grows on....

tinman said:
63- You find aluminum shavings in your bed sheets.
64- Your flying buddy is telling you about his new Cessna and you are doing your best to hide that little thought bubble in your mind that is screaming out "You poor bast&$d...why would you buy such a thing?"
65- When an experimental aircraft gets bent, you recognize the personal tragedy of the aircraft's loss...all those hours of labor and dreams. You are there to help the builder through the mourning period as he deals with the loss of something that he can't quite express...you recognize that the RV is more than a collection of parts.
66-Your 5-year old daughter knows her way around the shop and you have no issue with letting her "play" with a block of wood and a drill for clecoe practice.
67- That same 5-year old daughter spreads her arms and forms a human shield between the project and an unruly neighborhood kid as she warns him to stay away from the plane. (I love my little girl...very proud of her at that moment )

68 - You have ever used ProSeal to fix pesky household items, or your kid's bike!

69 - You put your hand on your heart and sing the National Anthem at airshows when M. Stewart and the boys fly over in formation.

70 - You look at a spam can and immediately consider the 100+ speed mods you could do to it!
 
71 you call your family members "buckers"
72 at social and/or family events you are the one staring off into space not taliking to anyone
 
Another....

73. You cut out part of the shipping box from the empennage kit that says "Caution..High Dollar Aircraft Parts", and hang it on the wall of the garage...just because it looks and sounds so cool! :D

(Am I the only one who has done that?)
 
txaviator said:
73. You cut out part of the shipping box from the empennage kit that says "Caution..High Dollar Aircraft Parts", and hang it on the wall of the garage...just because it looks and sounds so cool! :D

(Am I the only one who has done that?)
Haven't done that one yet but on a similiar note......when shipping a part and the agent asks what's in the box, you say with indescribable pride loud enough so everyone within earshot can hear "aircraft parts." Never mind the clerk usually responds with a vacant or blank stare and shouts "NEXT".

Rick Galati RV-6A "Darla"
 
more...

#74 Your hands and arms are permantly stained with ProSeal clear up to your elbows. (and your just as proud as a peacock about it!)
#75 You have ordered ScotchBrite and sand paper by the semi load.
#76 When figuring costs in the airplane you realize you spent more on UPS Next Day Air freight than parts, because you had to have it right now.
#77 You have offered to show your pilot buddy who flies a Cirrus SR-22 how to Bondo the seams and fill the elevator gaps to make it look alot better.
#78 You have enough aluminum scrap from "not good enough" parts that you can afford to drive 3 hours and take it to a aluminum salvage yard.
#79 You ask the Schwans man if he has any of those cool mixing sticks he would cut loose of.
 
More....

#80 You know the stock number of the SOLO paper cups that DON"T have wax on them (for mixing epoxy), and know which Kroger stores have them!

#81 If you've ever repaired a home appliance with flush rivets, dimple dies, rivet squeezer, etc, etc....
 
You May be an RV Builder

That rivet pattern in that Airbus engine nacelle looks like they they were shot in with a scattergun !!!
Bob Olds
 
After what seems like hours of bending and grunting under the panel, you finally get the xacto knife lined up to trim the cable and you notice that your finger that is supporting the cable will get cut too..... Oh well, skin will heal - just dont get blood on the carpet !
 
#63 - You have purchased more airplane project supplies than home project supplies at Home Depot, and wonder why the the name isn't 'Home Depot Aircraft Supply'.
 
#83 You keep coming up with ways to convince your wife that airplane parts are "investments", not expenses.

#84 Your dog doesn't get scared any more when your oil-less compressor kicks in.
 
You might be an RV builder if...

#85 When you fly commercial, you calculate how much sooner you would have gotten there if your RV was done.
 
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