Visit an RV a Month in Southern New England

[USCANAM]

As a follow up to a post started by Jack Hilditch last month in the RV9 Section, we are putting out feelers as to who would be interested in visiting and hosting a RV project each month in the Southern Massachusetts area.
Because of contacts made through Jack's post, I had the pleasure of Capt. John, and 2 other RV builders visiting my project a few weeks ago. We all seemed to benefit from the visit, so it was decided to make this a monthly event when it was discovered that there are many more builders in a radius of around 50 miles then we realized.

The guidelines are as follows;
Meet once a month at a project site.
Be prepared to give a tour of your project and explain the reasons that you deviated from the plans in some areas if you did.
Be willing to answer construction questions.
Be prepared to meet new builders, and perhaps re-kindle the fire in some builders.
Keep the spacing of meeting places to about 1 -1.5 hour drive max.

Since I'm perhaps close to 90% complete, and I have heat in my hangar, I will have the pleasure of hosting the first meeting at New Bedford Airport.
Plenty of room if you want to fly in, and lots of room to park if driving.
We have to know who's planning on attending because of security at the T hangars, and how much coffee and doughnuts we need.

Details;
Place: New Bedford Airport, at Jack's T Hangar
Time : Sunday, Feb 24, 2008 10:00am till whatever
RSVP rosenracing@comcast.net
Rain or Shine or Snow

I'll forward complete arrival details upon receipt of registration.

I hope this will be of interest to all the builders in this area
Regards
Jack

[Captain_John]

Jack, Nice work!

Perhaps next month we will be at my hangar and we can all see Bill H's beautiful RV-6?

This is open to everyone from dreamers to flying planes.

I remember when I was a dreamer and getting an eyeball on one of these elusive RV's was a difficult thing to do. I don't want it to be that way for others. I want everyone to feel welcome. Lurkers, please feel free to attend.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to look up my email addy in my profile and shoot me a message.

RSVP to Jack!

See you soon!

CJ

[wmjack]

Jack,

I've marked it down on my calendar and will do my best to attend.

Regards,

Jack

[ChrisL]

Count me in. I would be up for attending any and all of these, probably up to a 100 mile radius from the Boston Area. I would invite everyone up to my place in Portsmouth, NH, but all I have is a completed EMP. Perhaps when the QB arrives in Feb and I get moving on it, I could send out an invite a few months in.

Great idea on this post - can't wait to see more RV projects!
Chris

[aparchment]

I would be up for getting to know more of the guys in the area as well and seeing their projects. I know John (Captain John) and Dave (Thermos) pretty well, and I recently met Kevin Johnson at John's Christmas hangar party.

Chris, I am just up the road from you near Portland, ME. Did you do full QB or partial? I did slowbuild wings and a QB fuse. The wings are almost finished. I **just** need to do the bottom skins. My finish kit should be here in March.

See you at one of the fly-ins.

Antony

[Captain_John]

Antony, pick up Chris in Portsmouth on your way south in the Diamond and come to the pow-wow in New Bedford!

CJ

[Thermos]

I'll be there, and I'll be glad to host a visit to my shop in the near future...

Dave

[Noah]

I am already hosting my local EAA Chapter for a Barn Tour of my project on February 16th, 0900-1300, so I might as well open it up to other RV builders.

The project is an RV-7A, 1500 hours TT into project, around half of them by a previous owner.
Tail: complete and installed on fuse. electric pitch trim.
Wings: complete except for plumbing, wiring & lower skins. Hotel Whiskey ER fuel tanks installed
Fuse: Control system installed, manual aileron trim, tops skins and sub-panel to go, brakes installed, fuel system nearing completion, andair fuel valve.
Canopy: cracked by previous builder, replacement on hand but not yet started
Panel: MVP-50, not much else yet.
Engine: IO360 A1B6 200 hp preparing for overhaul

Please email (see public profile) or PM me if you're interested and I'll send lat/lon for those skydiving in, or directions for those driving. Project is in my garage, 2 miles north of Kingston RI. Midway between KOQU and 08R.

Highest Regards,

[Geronimo4497]

Great info! I'm up in BVY and still trying to decide between the -9 project with my Dad or going it 'alone' on a -3 project. I have the plans for both, and WOW, what a difference.

My new job is great, I actually have that weekend off, and I know it over a month in advance! Hard to believe in the flying business. I'll head to EWB in the spam can on the morning of Feb 24th. Sound like fun.

Want me to airlift in the coffee or donuts?

-Alex

[AHNC]

I've been lurking...registered lurking, but lurking none the less for a couple months now. I have the 9 pre-plans and some of the videos and trying to figure it out. I'm not without skills but have never built or worked on airplanes before. I expect to do a tail class to see if I'm for real on this. I'm a pretty long term student pilot and working to finish. I have an automotive resto I have to finish (April) and turn before I can move forward on the QB kit. I'd like to join you on 2/28.

My AHNC handle speaks to my knowledge of airplane building. Given the strong Texas sponsorship of the site I felt that "All Hat, No Cattle" might tell the tale pretty well. One day, I'll hope to change it, but that likely won't happen for a while.

Thank you for the invitation!

Jack