Early Newsletter comments

[rbibb]

I couldn't help but notice from reading in the early newsletter just how far we have come in building these airplanes. back then if you wanted to build an RV-3 you had to actually get your landing gear heat treated yourself. As in take them to a heat treat facility and get the machined stock treated to the correct Rockwell hardness. You even were given different alloys to use if the 6150 steel (to machine your landing gear from I suppose) was difficult to obtain.

These days we get upset if we have to touch up the finished powder coat once we just bolt the things in.


Different time, different builders, same great flying airplanes (even if the only one available was the RV-3).