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Ok, Ken
Lets see periodic photos of progress posted to his
list {:>). I figure if you had to take a photo once a week and show the
results that might motivate you {:>)
Ed
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:22
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: QB RV-8
Yep, looks doable for someone who has built a couple of RV's. My
kids may be grown but work and 'home projects' (plus the restoration of my '89
Mustang) keep me from getting back to my RV-4 project. I REALLY' believe
that I will make progress this year though, especially since Ed (Anderson)
keeps motivating me.
Ken Powell
Bryant, Arkansas
501-847-4721
C150 / RV-4
under construction
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From: "Russell Duffy"
<13brv3@bellsouth.net>
Can you really build a RV-8 Quickbuild in 9 months while still holding
a full time job? When do you sleep!!!! How? (serious
question) How many hours do you think it will take?
Hi
Ken,
At first,
this sounds impossible, but on paper, it's quite reasonable. I've
built about 2.5 RV's so far, including a standard kit RV-8. I
spent 1602 hours over 2.5 years building the earlier -8, but again, that was
a standard kit.
The new
kit is a QB, which is supposed to save 800-1000 hours. If it
saves 800 hours, then I will only need 800 to get the plane flying (not
painted, or with fairings, etc). You can probably knock off
another 100 hours due to the fact that the new kits are so much better than
the older ones. For example, the empennage is all "match
hole" construction now, which
means you just cleco it together on the workbench. All the steel parts
are powder coated, which saves me the time of painting all that stuff.
I'll also save considerable time staring at the plans, and debating options
such as where to put the antenna, ELT, headset jacks, etc. Having
"been there, done that" before, is a huge advantage. Van's also
sells a FWF package now, that has everything you need, including all
the pre-made hoses. Not
The other
advantage(?) is a change in vacation policy with Philips this
year. They now only allow you to carry over a small amount of saved
vacation from one year to the next, rather than the 6 weeks we used to be
able to carry. Since I'm maxed on vacation time, and accumulate it
rapidly, I will need to take 8 weeks of vacation this year to keep from
losing any time. I can easily work on the plane 70 hours in a vacation
week, so that's 560 hours right there.
The real
time savings is the fact that I have no kids, or social life, and a wife who
doesn't pile up too many honey-do's.
As you
see, it's possible, but still optimistic.
Cheers,
Rusty
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later)
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