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OK, I'll decide it for you: don't sell it.
I felt like getting rid of mine too after taking the wings off and
hauling it home after my engine fire. And that was prior to any first
flight! I let it sit in my garage for a couple if months. It actually
only took a few week endings to replace the skins on flaps, fuselage
bottom and elevator, once I got around to it.
An engine overhaul is not more than a couple of weekends (if you decide
to clean the rotors, etc.), and you can copy my or Ed's standard oil
cooler setup. Not a big deal.
When you look back at it, it's a lot more satisfying to get a project
to the point where you wanted it (reaching your goal) than dropping it
and remembering it as a failure. Lots of sayings about this: getting
back on the horse, etc.
Store it somewhere and get back to it when you feel like it.
If you still haven't decided, how much are you asking for plane,
engine, PSRU and prop?
Finn (had a great first flight today after two weeks of
maintenance/annual inspection downtime).
Russell Duffy wrote:
Message
As for
the plane, I've already received one email asking if I want to sell it,
so I might pursue that. As you know, only a couple weeks ago, I was
saying that I planned to sell the RV-3, and transplant the engine into
an RV-7. Well, the plane's apart, and I would end up putting a
significant amount of time into getting it back in the air. With that
in mind, I'm thinking that it might be just as well to go ahead and
sell the airframe now. Haven't decided for sure, but I could see
getting the Slingshot back together in fairly short order with the
912S, then either starting on a single rotor conversion for
the Slingshot, or starting on an RV-7.
Cheers,
Rusty
(undecided)
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