Yep, I am building an airplane in my garage. It's called a RV-9A, designed by Van's Aircraft Corporation. I guess it doesn't help much to tell you that this is not as crazy as it sounds. The kits and resulting airplanes are great, and there are thousands already flying from this manufacturer alone. Once it's finished it will be faster than most production light airplanes, yet more efficient than just about any other airplane. For example, it will cruise at 190 mph while still getting better than 20 mpg.
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Construction Log:
Most recent 5 entries -- Daily updates available via RSS:
http://eastham-lee.com/rv/index.rss
Links to each day's entry, about 400 so far!
Photo Highlights -- a few memorable images
Construction Status as of 6/19/07:
Done!
Rants and other local stuff:
Luxeon LEDs for lighting
Sub-optimal tools
The folly(?) of scratch removal
Priming, what I'm doing and why
N42PE's special features and other big decisions
RV Accident Stats: I did a quick-and-dirty
analysis of 2001 RV accidents.
Manual Errata Registry (inactive)
Part Defect Registry (inactive)
Things for newbies:
Construction log decoder: If you want to
understand what all those buzzwords mean
Newbie lessons learned; someone please profit from
my screw-ups!
Offsite:
RV Links that I use.
