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2025 EAA LINDY AWARDS

We had the pleasure of parking next to N278S in HBC and meeting Mark and Vicki, it really is a nicely done aircraft.
 
I had a close look at Charles Hammes RV8 fastback. What an outstanding piece of workmanship! Congrats to the winners! Not one from the country to the north this year? I guess we’re slipping!

Don
 
I'm pleased to see the lineup of old-school winners in Plans Built. I didn't see the Pitts, but the Piet was awesome...and not a checkbook exercise.
 
Don Patrick said:
I had a close look at Charles Hammes RV8 fastback. What an outstanding piece of workmanship! Congrats to the winners! Not one from the country to the north this year? I guess we’re slipping!

Don
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I too am guilty of snapping a pic or two of Charles's RV8.
 
Congratulations to all that won awards. The bar is set extremely high these days at OSH. If you haven't seen the article or the other posts - the judging process is changing. You will not have to sit at your airplane all week. Your build log/build book will be heavily scrutinized. The judges will ask questions of you to determine how much of the build you actually did. For those critical of the Evoke/Cascade/Fulltron paint jobs - the forum last week at OSH essentially said that the paint jobs are not winning the awards (but to be fair, many of the winners do have these paint jobs). The judges are seasoned enough to look past that for build quality/fit and finish. Innovation is also very important (example - Andy Manilla's fire suppression system on his RV-8 a few years back). Hopefully, most will view these changes as a positive.
 
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Heres my bronze lindy plane. I was interviewed by a number of judges and I could tell they were trying to figure out if I hired anything out and if there were any notable mods. I had a binder with pictures of the CAD files that I created for the panel, status pics, harness fabrication pics, plenum pics as well as the vacuum bag process for remolding the lower cowl and FAB for example. I also talked about a number of weight saving mods - stubby wingtips, rv-8 rudder, strategic placement of avionics to reduce wiring runs, carbon plenum, carbon canopy skirt, etc.
 
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Heres my bronze lindy plane. I was interviewed by a number of judges and I could tell they were trying to figure out if I hired anything out and if there were any notable mods. I had a binder with pictures of the CAD files that I created for the panel, status pics, harness fabrication pics, plenum pics as well as the vacuum bag process for remolding the lower cowl and FAB for example. I also talked about a number of weight saving mods - stubby wingtips, rv-8 rudder, strategic placement of avionics to reduce wiring runs, carbon plenum, carbon canopy skirt, etc.
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Rob, you have a real talent for coming up with interesting pain schemes! I liked the -3, and I liked this on too.

Is that paint or vinyl? If paint, how did you shoot the gray shading on the tail?
 
DanH said:
Rob, you have a real talent for coming up with interesting pain schemes! I liked the -3, and I liked this on too.

Is that paint or vinyl? If paint, how did you shoot the gray shading on the tail?
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Thanks Dan. It’s all paint, but I didn’t spray this one. Cascade customs battled with masking the complex digicam via layers of printed vinyl templates.
 
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