David_West-SAB
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Hello everyone,
My name is David West, and I and co-founded a group on my campus (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) that will build experimental general-aviation aircraft. I've been going to Airventure for over a decade, and I finally decided - "What the heck, it's time to actually do that!"
We're called the "Student Aircraft Builders." After meeting with EAA Chapter 29, we chose an RV-7a as our first project. We have the tail kit, are in the process of purchasing tools, and plan to start construction in late September.
We are currently creating a website that will be located at www.ae.uiuc.edu/sab within a couple of weeks.
As my first official question on this forum: What books/resources do you recommend? What do you have sitting on your shelf in your hanger/garage/basement? None of us have any prior building experience, or even riveting experience. About half have done the quick rivet-workshop at Sun 'n Fun or Airventure. I would like to acquire some nice textbook-like materials on aircraft building, RV construction, or anything else that you can recommend. Our school will help pay for 75% of such materials, so please make all the recommendations that you can. (And no, unfortunately, they are not helping to purchase anything that actually goes on the aircraft.)
Thank you all in advance,
David West
President, Co-Founder - Student Aircraft Builders
Hello everyone,
My name is David West, and I and co-founded a group on my campus (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) that will build experimental general-aviation aircraft. I've been going to Airventure for over a decade, and I finally decided - "What the heck, it's time to actually do that!"
We're called the "Student Aircraft Builders." After meeting with EAA Chapter 29, we chose an RV-7a as our first project. We have the tail kit, are in the process of purchasing tools, and plan to start construction in late September.
We are currently creating a website that will be located at www.ae.uiuc.edu/sab within a couple of weeks.
As my first official question on this forum: What books/resources do you recommend? What do you have sitting on your shelf in your hanger/garage/basement? None of us have any prior building experience, or even riveting experience. About half have done the quick rivet-workshop at Sun 'n Fun or Airventure. I would like to acquire some nice textbook-like materials on aircraft building, RV construction, or anything else that you can recommend. Our school will help pay for 75% of such materials, so please make all the recommendations that you can. (And no, unfortunately, they are not helping to purchase anything that actually goes on the aircraft.)
Thank you all in advance,
David West
President, Co-Founder - Student Aircraft Builders