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You guys are building the right plane
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:55 am
by svanarts
Found this on the EAA Airventure website:
Last year, RVs made up 36 percent of the homebuilts in attendance.
Some day we'll rule the world!
Fly my pretties, fly!
Sorry, we now return you to sanity.
Re: You guys are building the right plane
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:54 am
by nightflyer
svanarts wrote:Found this on the EAA Airventure website:
Last year, RVs made up 36 percent of the homebuilts in attendance.
Some day we'll rule the world!
Fly my pretties, fly!
Sorry, we now return you to sanity.
Amen to that Svanarts. When I was in the first stages of deciding which of the many worthy kitplanes I'd like to build, I seriously considered about a half-dozen. I've always enjoyed having something a little different from the next guy, so at first I didn't consider an RV, thinking they were too conventional. Then I realized I was going to be thousands of feet up in something I riveted/screwed/glued together myself
! Suddenly, conventional sounded pretty good, and when I learned how many RVs were flying and how much builder support was literally at my fingertips, I was sold.
RVs rule!
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:51 am
by captain_john
nightflyer,
That is kinda like my story.
I considered other formidable designs like the Wing and a Prayer, XYZ Flier and the so unique, it'll never get done. I wanted something different than the rest of the flock. After thinking it over, I concluded that the rest of the flock drives SPAM cans like Pipers and Cessnas. The RV ISN'T like the rest. So I bought into it!
So glad I did! The cameraderie is TREMENDOUS!
CJ
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:25 pm
by Dan A
When it comes to NEW AIRPLANES, I believe you will find the majority is US!!
RV"s Rule!!
Dan
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:25 pm
by 728GD
Captain,
I could not agree more. Whenever I fly into an airport and get out of the plane for breakfast, lunch, or dinner (the main reason we fly) a group of people will almost always walk over and give the plane the once over. You don't see that happen to the pipers, cessnas, moonies, ......
There is something about knowing you built the plane people are so interested in. The RV may be based on the triditional designs, but it is not you everyday run of the mill airplane.
For the money vs. performance, it's one of the best if not the best out there. 4000+ builders can not be wrong!