Where is Scott's Coyote?

Post by **Spike** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:57 am

That is sooo nifty. Nice job dude! I can't wait to see a picture of it wheels up!

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:53 pm

captain_john wrote:

HEY!

That is a Port-A-Port hangar just like mine!

I insulated and heated mine. I will get some pics of it this summer when Bill H's -6 is flying.

Cool hangars!!! Someone should start selling those again! They would sell like hotcakes to RV builders!!!

CJ

What's even cooler about this particular hangar is that I built it from scratch. No plans. Just bought a bunch of steel tubing and kept peeking one of the local port-a-ports to figure out what went were. Took about 30 days. I'm quite proud of this ol' hangar. The planes have come and gone but this hangar is constant. It' doesn't look too bad after 13 years does it?

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:54 pm

Spike wrote:That is sooo nifty. Nice job dude! I can't wait to see a picture of it wheels up!

If I work hard and keep my grades up, might be as soon as this summer.

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:56 pm

lancef53 wrote:I think you had plenty of trailer for the plane, nothing like a 50 ton detach for a 600 lb fuselage

Good to see you move, I moved my 8 on friday. It looks like a plane when you get the wings on!

Yeah it bounces a lot more with a little kite on the back than it does with an earth-mover on the back. Had me nervous because at many points it looked like it was going to bounce clear off. Luckily Dennis knows how to lash his loads down. He hauls planes all the time and he hasn't lost one yet.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:05 pm

Nice! So you made that Port-A-Port?

Good Idea! They are simple structures!

CJ

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:26 pm

Yep. I learned to weld on that hangar. You can tell where I started welding, and you can tell where I finished.

Just like airplanes, I couldn't afford to buy one so I built it. At the time it cost me $3500 in materials. The bulk of that cost being the siding.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:36 pm

Well mine came already built in 1978. I bought it 3 years ago for $9,000.

Since then there have been some upgrades and now it is the most highly polished turd on the airport property!

CJ

Post by **Spike** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:59 pm

Update please.

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:25 am

How did I miss your request Spike? Oh well, here is the update.

Everything is done except for some minor work on the cowling and painting the miscellaneous pieces. The last bit of work was to skin the wings and that is taking almost as long to do as it would applying regular fabric. These wing skins slip on over the ends of the wings like a sock and then are fastened to the root rib with screws. The root rib is then cranked inboard via two bolts and that stretches the fabric tight. Sounds easy right? Right....

And here's a picture of the plane of when I had just finished rigging the wings.

As soon as I put the wings back on and get the fuel lines hooked up we'll put gas in her and see if she wants to start up.

After that I'm calling the FSDO to schedule the airworthiness inspection.

lancef53 · Post by **lancef53** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:06 am

Looks great!!

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:22 pm

looking good Scott. You'll have to bring it to Montana for some backcountry action

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:29 pm

Count on it Brian. Emmet Welch and Joey Meyers will probably make it a flight of three.

I was very remiss not to identify the RV-6A to the right of my plane in the hangar. He started his 6 before I started my 4. I finished my 4 before he finished his 6.

Also in the back you can see the spinner and prop on an RV-7A. The prop is sticking out of the front of an Eggenfelner Subaru. Anybody want pictures of that?

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:30 pm

About to do an engine start. May be sharing some video very soon.

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:43 pm

cool beans Scott. We like progress and videos

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:28 pm

Awesome Scott!!! I can't wait to see it!!

I just watched the Ran's promo video again the other day...cool stuff!!

Post by **Spike** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:34 am

This is exciting! So many births around here I can hardly stand it

Spike

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:39 pm

Didn't get to start it this past weekend. We're hoping for this weekend. I'll post a video assuming we remember to take one. Here is a picture of her all painted up.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:53 pm

Awesome!!! That looks so good Scott! I couldn't have picked the colors better myself...

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:45 pm

Thanks! I need to touch up some oversprayed areas but that can always wait until later. Sure it can.

lancef53 · Post by **lancef53** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:06 am

You might want to touch up the overspray on the windscreen!!

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