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02-27-2014, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: lake oswego, OR
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Tip: Aluminum empennage fairing
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02-28-2014, 11:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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That is some really nice sheet metal work. Wow!
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02-28-2014, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Seattle
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I'm in!
At first I thought it was going to be a complex piece of work from a single piece of aluminum.
Done on an English Wheel or a Plannishing Hammer, Shot bag & solder bar, whatever.
Instead, you show us something that can actually be done with the skills we have learned while building. Too Cool. 
AND, for anyone out there who HAS done something like this with the afore mentioned skills; Show us that too! Also, tell us something about it.
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Scott Emery
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EAA 668340, chapter 326 & IAC chapter 67
RV-8 N89SE first flight 12/26/2013
Yak55M, and the wife has an RV-4
There is nothing-absolute nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing around with Aeroplanes
(with apologies to Ratty)
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02-28-2014, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garden City, Tx
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All the way down to the holes drilled at the radius of the cutouts for the rivet tabs, which most people forget. Nice work!
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Greg Niehues - SEL, IFR, Repairman Cert.
Garden City, TX VAF 2020 dues paid 
N16GN flying 700 hrs and counting; IO360, SDS, WWRV200, Dynon HDX, 430W
Built an off-plan RV9A with too much fuel and too much HP. Should drop dead any minute now.
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02-28-2014, 02:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Harrisburg, Pa
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Awesome! Definitely going into the future good idea folder...
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02-28-2014, 07:18 PM
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been here awhile
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Alabama
Posts: 4,300
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wow!
Last edited by Sam Buchanan : 02-28-2014 at 07:25 PM.
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02-28-2014, 10:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Austinville, Alabama
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Congratulations, Sam, for having those photos and thanks for sharing them with us. I thought seriously about buying that RV when Wendell, the first builder, had it for sale. The aluminum work by both the first and second owners was quite impressive. Do you know where it is now? PM me if you'd rather.
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?Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." Miriam Beard
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02-28-2014, 10:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: lake oswego, OR
Posts: 161
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years ago I remember a guy that worked at Columbia helicopter was building a rv-3 from plans. he thought the factory parts were **** and was making his own rib molds and such. never saw nor heard from him. life is too short. greg Halverson built a 6A cowl from AL, piecing together parts formed on an English wheel. he ended up having cracks and fatigue problems. the cowl was very light. I believe he did use a fiberglass nose bowl for the intakes.
AL wheel pants would be nice. mine have the most problems of any parts on the plane.
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