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12-17-2010, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Plans built RV-6 1st Flight Pics
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Joe Schneider
RV-7, IO-360, BA Hartzell, N847CR
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12-17-2010, 09:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
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That's awesome!! How does one go about building one from plans???
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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12-17-2010, 09:20 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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Nice! It looks like there's a fuel filler cap on the right wingtip for a tip tank, too.
Was everything done from plans, or were fibreglass parts bought from Vans?
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Rob Prior
1996 RV-6 "Tweety" C-FRBP (formerly N196RV)
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12-17-2010, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cjensen
That's awesome!! How does one go about building one from plans???
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The RV-3, -4, and -6 plans included enough information to build from plans.
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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12-17-2010, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mel
The RV-3, -4, and -6 plans included enough information to build from plans.
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Interesting!! I didn't know that Mel! 
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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12-18-2010, 05:31 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oklahoma
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Lots of special features
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Originally Posted by Snowflake
Nice! It looks like there's a fuel filler cap on the right wingtip for a tip tank, too.
Was everything done from plans, or were fibreglass parts bought from Vans?
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Hopefully Joe will chime in and answer questions. I don't want to steal his thunder. I know there are lots of special features such as thicker skins in some areas, special engine cooling features, extended range tanks and a high compression O-320.
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Joe Schneider
RV-7, IO-360, BA Hartzell, N847CR
Flying since 2008
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12-18-2010, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Cambridge MA
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Awesome looking plane, what an achievement!
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Student pilot and RV wanna-be
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12-18-2010, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ohio
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News to me
I never heard of that! Very cool! The airplane looks great!
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12-18-2010, 12:07 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
Posts: 3,547
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Very nice
Sharp looking airplane.
Actually we are spoiled with our kits. My Zenair Zodiac was supposed to have been a "kit" airplane but it was really nothing more than a set of plans and a pile of sheet metal..Well the spars and ribs were pre-formed. Several of those aircraft have been built from just plans however.
Its not that much harder..Just (a lot) more work and one has to make sure the build table is perfectly flat to act as a reference to avoid building a twist into structures where shouldn't be.
Frank
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12-18-2010, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: KRTS
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So he cut, drilled, punched, formed every piece of metal on that thing from hand?
That's amazing. Curious how many build hours went into it.
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