Darwin,
Congratulations on your maiden flight with the RV7..!! Only someone
that has hand built a plane personally can appreciate and enjoy your
excitement and thrill of that first flight. And, those future flights
will just keep getting better and more enjoyable as your sense of
satisfaction and accomplishment continues to sink in. I know because I
built my Christen Eagle and restored my AT-6 from a basket of parts.
Some beautiful sunny day you'll be flying along at 8,000 feet, look
around at the world below and think "I did it!" What a wonderful
feeling.
Merry Christmas, and we'll see each other in 2006.
Fred Johnson, N4FJ, N5FJ
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darwin N. Barrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; soaring@airage.com
Sent: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:26:04 -0600
Subject: [SA] OT-My RV7 flies
A little off topic, but on Friday December 23, my Van's RV7 took to the
air in
Chandler AZ. The RV7 is powered by an ECI IO360 180 hp engine (Lycoming
clone),
Whirlwind RV200 composite prop and full IFR Garmin avionics stack with
2 axis
auto pilot. For fun I put in a XM radio. This is 2 seat, 180mph+
airplane.
(www.vansaircraft.com)
The plane took 2.5 years to build. Everything went well except the
electronic
engine monitoring system went down during the flight. I'm trouble
shooting now
and hope to have it back in the air next week. The engine ran great
with no
problems there or with any of the avionics.
I built a box under the turtle deck that can hold two Open Class
sailplanes. I
hope to make it to some 1 day soaring contests that would have been
impractical
any other way. I guess I'll just have to drive to the IMAC contests.
Watch the Soaring column in Model Aviation for some photos in a couple
of
months.
Anyone with some model building experience can build one of these. I
know Larry
Jolly (RV7) on the soaring side is getting ready to build one as is Jim
Carlton
(RV10). Bill Hempel is getting ready to pull the trigger (RV7) and Mike
Barbee
should be about done with his RV8. There may be others out there too!!
DArwin N. Barrie
Chandler AZ
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