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Old 10-24-2018, 05:40 AM
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On Tuesday October 16 N127KT The Dirty Bird flew for the first time. What a rush! First flight had a couple of squaks that were easily taken care of and the second flight went amazingly well!!!




It was just a few weeks shy of 8 years of building to get to this point.






A few specs:

RV8
Showplanes Fastback
Showplanes Cowl
200hp IO-360 built by Barrett Precision Engines with the Proteck EFII
Whirlwind 74HRT
Grove airfoil gear
G3X
FlyLEDs
JD Air tail wheel
many more awesome vendors

Empty weight 1035

Thanks all for the advice and encouragement along the way and a special thanks to DR for helping to make my dream of building and flying my own plane a reality.

Keep pounding those rivets!!!!!
Awesome,
Pretty as it is.
It will be plenty fast at that weight.

Happy Landings,
Daddyman
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Old 10-24-2018, 08:00 PM
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Well done!! Congrats!! The pic with you and your arms raised int he air in triumph pretty much says it all.
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RV7 empennage acquired and the "journey" has officially begun. Wings are here!
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Old 10-25-2018, 12:59 PM
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No issues fitting the prop and there are no clearance/contact issues with the showplanes cowl and the prop.
Thanks Aaron,
Glad it all worked for you!
Congrats again!
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James extended cowl/plenum, induction, -8VS and Rudder. TSFlightline hoses. Oregon Aero leather seats.
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Old 11-01-2018, 06:47 AM
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Default Congrats!!!

What a great plane! Those fastback -8's sure are sexy. Nice job Aaron. Have fun in phase I.
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