From: RWolf99@aol.com
Message-ID: <34.162013ac.284f2fa4@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:03:00 EDT
Subject: 500 Hour Legacy
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: lancair.list@olsusa.com

          <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
          <<  Lancair Builders' Mail List  >>
          <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>
In a message dated 6/5/2001 10:20:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
lancair.list@olsusa.com writes:

<< I just read on the Lancair site that the Legacy can be built in under 500 
 hours.  Is that for real???? >>

I was about to say "Hell, no!" until I read Aaron May's post.  He said it 
pretty well.  There's no doubt that the Legacy is a quicker-build version of 
an already quick-build kit.  I examined the Legacy at Oshkosh last year and 
realized that after 800 hours building my "super fast build" 360, I was just 
about where the Legacy is right out of the box.

More telling is Aaron's point about the learning curve.  The right side of my 
airplane is being built in half the time of the left.  It's that steep.  Now, 
I don't really always start on the left side and then do the right side, but 
my point is still valid.  The second 360 I build (were I masochistic enough 
to do it twice, which I'm not) would go much faster than the first.

Buy the engine package, farm out the avionics, the body work and the paint, 
and yes, it should happen real quick.  You'll probably also double the price, 
too.  But 500 hours?  I don't really think so, especially not for a first 
timer, but I'd easily believe 1000.

Hell.  I've talked to builders who have spent more than 1000 hours just 
sanding!  Who's gonna complain if their Legacy were to take all of 1000 hours 
instead of the advertised 500?  

The Legacy is a nice kit and probably represents the pinnacle of the 2-place 
Lancair family.  (Okay, Lance, prove me wrong...)  Too bad I couldn't afford 
one -- though I could afford a 360 fast build and that's another story 
entirely -- so if you're on the fence about buying one my recommendation is 
to jump into the deep end of the pool and just do it (if I may mix my 
metaphors a little).  You probably won't get your first flight after 500 
hours of building but you'll be making progress mighty fast.

- Rob Wolf
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
LML website:   http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html
LML Builders' Bookstore:   http://www.buildersbooks.com/lancair

Please send your photos and drawings to marvkaye@olsusa.com.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>