From: "Dana Overall" <bo124rs@hotmail.com>
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Subject: On the lighter....or darker side:-)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:01:10 -0400
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This is a cut and paste off the RVlist but I thought some of you rotary 
heads might like to see a "new to be kid on the block".

No, I am not like the Wendy's man and "unofficially" associated with Abby at 
Flightline Interiors,
http://my.execpc.com/~erdmannb/ but I do have a big mouth and have a
tendency to speak my mine:-) and if it's nice I'll tell ya.

I received my interior from Abby yesterday.  Let's put it this way, I'm
going to have to increase my level of workmanship to match the quality of
the work I unboxed yesterday!!  If you are in the market for an interior, my
recommendation is contact Abby at the above site or call 262-679-5934.
I'm not discrediting any other interior provider, I am just at a loss for
words on how great Abby's work is.

A little history, as most you you know I went off the deep end and went with
Imron black as my paint color.  It seems the black airplane took on a life
of it's own and progressed to having a carbon fiber panel, as much glass as
possible in the panel including a 7" DVD screen for the passenger, gold
powder coated rotary engine http://rvflying.tripod.com/goldengine.jpg,
rocket tinted canopy and a bunch of other little do-dads.  Well, a name had
to be decided on so Black Magic was it with Mickey's little wizard hat
reproduced as a 3" gold replication on the VS.  Now, here is where it gets
fun.

I relayed this theme and interior desires to Abby by way of the phone.  She
was wanting to get more into custom interiors in addition to "normal"
interior work.  Once again, some will consider my path somewhat on the
trailing edge of normal:-) kind of like Young Frankensteen (sp) and Abby 
Normal (only you Mel Brooks fans will appreciate that).  Several ideas were 
bounces back and forth until
a final idea was decided upon.  Abby then took this idea and ran with it.  I
wanted the Black Magic theme to be somewhat discreet, this was achieved.
Here is a pic of the passenger side panel
http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior1.jpg  In keeping with the gold 
trim/black here
is the baggage compartment rear cover with tonneau cover
http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior2.jpg  progressing to the pilot side side
panel http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior3.jpg  The pictures make the
stitching stand out much more than it really is.   As you can see, the
starburst comes out of the finger, does a couple loops across the seat backs
and disappears into the palm.  Way too cool in my book!!  Folks, Abby
doesn't have creativity cornered but she sure knows where the corner is.

As I count the interior panels, I see over 30 individual panels to install
using 3M 77.  Each panel is cut and numbered for easy install.  No alum will
be seen anywhere inside the cockpit, forward fuselage or baggage compartment
including the rudder motor housing and seat back brace.  The attention to
detail is so obvious, it's incredible.  Look at the cutout for the fuselage
vertical member on the side of the tonneau cover
http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior4.jpg  This is the panel just forward of
the spar carrythough on the pilots side...........nice pen holder
http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior5.jpg
This pic shows just what I mean about the attention to detail
http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior6.jpg  This is the pic of the lower
baggage compartment panel.  On the top you see the very small cutout for
wrapping it around the vertical support, on the top front you see the cutout
to wrap it under the armrest and in front of the seat back support vertical
post.  About 1/2 way down is the round cutout for the rudder cable and the
bottom cutout is for the flap weldment.  This is just one example of the
quality of Abby's work.

Folks, if you are in the market for an interior you need to do yourself a
favor and check out Abby's website.  It is worth the look!!

You can certainly criticize my choices:-) but you can't Flightline
Interior's work.


Dana Overall
Richmond, KY i39
RV-7 slider, Imron black, "Black Magic"
Finish kit
13B Rotary. Hangar flying my Dynon.
http://rvflying.tripod.com/aero1.jpg
http://rvflying.tripod.com/aero3.jpg
http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackrudder.jpg