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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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I am AG-pilot since 1977. Got my private license in 1974, commercial in 1976.
After many years flying for money, now I want to fly for enjoy only
sometimes. I am a beginner builder, have no prior experience.
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Sorry for bad english.
Ricardo Volkweis Lopes
Pelotas, RS South of Brazil
601XL TD Just Started helped for friends
Em Domingo 31 Dezembro 2006 15:55, R.P. escreveu:
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Dave & List
I have wondered the same thing for a while. I am a Principal Technical Instructor for Global Knowledge/Nortel Training. I teach telephone technicians to install, maintain and program Nortel’s Meridian 1 / CS1000 business telephone systems. I started in the field in 1977 and have been teaching for the last 15 years. I love it!
I am a handyman on the side for three apartment complexes and am a licensed electrical contractor. In the 80’s my Dad, Brother & I built a Quickie. I also wired and installed a Revmaster VW conversion in a friend’s Q2. I haven’t flown for over 25 years and hope that soon my finances will allow me to start building a 601XL. With my new plans that Santa gave me I might start scratch building my horizontal stab soon.
Dave Thompson
dave.thompson(at)verizon.net (dave.thompson(at)verizon.net)
Westminster, CA
601XL rudder workshop, Corvair engine in parts and new plans from Santa
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lwinger
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 229 Location: Tustin, CA
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Happy New Year, Dave.
It sounds like you had a great Christmas if there was a set of 601XL plans under the tree. If scratch building is in your future, let me know and I'll be glad to show you my shop...and completed tail section. I think you would really enjoy scratch building, and you can't beat the cost...especially if you already have tools (as I know you do).
Were the plans a gift from your wife? Is so, does that mean you have a green light to begin building?
Larry
On 1/1/07, Dave Thompson <dave.thompson(at)verizon.net (dave.thompson(at)verizon.net)> wrote: [quote]
Dave & List
I have wondered the same thing for a while. I am a Principal Technical Instructor for Global Knowledge/Nortel Training. I teach telephone technicians to install, maintain and program Nortel's Meridian 1 / CS1000 business telephone systems. I started in the field in 1977 and have been teaching for the last 15 years. I love it!
I am a handyman on the side for three apartment complexes and am a licensed electrical contractor. In the 80's my Dad, Brother & I built a Quickie. I also wired and installed a Revmaster VW conversion in a friend's Q2. I haven't flown for over 25 years and hope that soon my finances will allow me to start building a 601XL. With my new plans that Santa gave me I might start scratch building my horizontal stab soon.
Dave Thompson
dave.thompson(at)verizon.net (dave.thompson(at)verizon.net)
Westminster, CA
601XL rudder workshop, Corvair engine in parts and new plans from Santa
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Tustin, CA
Plans building 601XL/650 with Corvair
Installing fuel system
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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OK, so I'm a few days behind on reading my digests....promise..I'll
catch up!
I'm a morning radio show host, been on the air for 31 years, 19 of them
at KOZY/KMFY Radio in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. I'm also chief
engineer, maintaining 2 air and 2 production studios, as well as 5000
watt directional AM transmitter and 100,000 watt FM transmitter. If
you feel like killing some time, visit the station website :
http://www.kozyradio.com
and follow the links for the Morning Mess and even the Curb Feelers (we
actually have an oldies band made up of station staff!)If you're REALLY
curious, we have podcasts available from nearly all the morning shows,
usually delayed by a day or two.
In my spare time I divy it up between airplane stuff, photography,
record collecting, computers (Mac only spoken here) and I'm a bit of an
ebay-aholic..mostly selling stuff to support my hobbies. Oh..that, and
driving my wife nuts.
4 kids, 3 grand kids, and I'm only 48!
Tim in Bovey
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Larry Portouw
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Sierra Vista/Ft. Huachuca, AZ
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Great question. This thread has been facinating.
I'm a retired (recently) US Army Colonel. I've gone to work (2 kids in college) as a gov't contractor as a reaserch scientist for a non-profit technology company. I did one year in the Infantry, and 25 as an Intelligence Officer. Last assignment was as the G2, Third Army / ARCENT. Got my private in high school many years ago. Own a 1954 PA-22 Tri-Pacer and am building a 601XL. The kit is in storage while we build a house (and a shop) in SE Arizona.
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601XL Kit (H. Stab) (on hold)
PA-22 N8141C<< This project now taking all my time.
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Eddie G.
Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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I graduated a physics (electro-optics) major some 18 years ago. Didn't find a job that paid enough to play with lasers and make holograms all day long, so ended up an electrical engineer (power systems), working for a small consulting company. Right now I am working around JPL's big dishes that talk to the little skateboards on Mars and to the space probes!
My expensive hobbies: I am an amateur photographer, private pilot, archer, hiker and mountain biker. And am working on lifting my second Jeep Cherokee for desert racing.
After taking the RV builder's class I came to the conclusion that Zenith is a lot easier and quieter to build in a metropolitan area!!
Eddie
Living in a small condo in Los Angeles
601XL rudder in the box (looking for a place to build it!)
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Larry,
Have to fly the 600 down your way after it is flying and the fly off is complete - later this spring. What airport is closest to your new house?
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Semper Fi,
Steven R. Hulland
CH 600 Taildragger
Amado, AZ
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Larry Portouw
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Sierra Vista/Ft. Huachuca, AZ
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: Re: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Steve,
Closest Airport is Libby Army Airfield. It's joint use with the City of Sierra Vista. Three runways, longest is 12,001 feet (capable of taking the space shuttle). Don't let the restricted airspace dissuade you-- listen to ATIS. R doesn't exist when the tower is closed. If open, call approach well out and they will clear you in. Best way is to come down Hwy 90 from the Benson area. There is a cutout in the airspace up to 7000' that you will see on the chart. Key reporting point is the "North-Y" shown on the chart north of the airfield. From you location, you could come east via Sonoita and under the R shelf (below 7000', only the closest in segment touches the ground). You probably can't come direct because the western end of the airspace is where the Army does UAV training. If no UAVs are up, approach will clear you direct, just gotta ask. The circular restricted area SE of Sierra Vista is an aerostat. Big cable underneath it to the ground and it is always active.
Please come on down. I'll send a phone number off-list. I'd love to see your project. We've got a good EAA Chapter here.
Larry
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[quote="marinegunner(at)gmail.com"]Larry,
Have to fly the 600 down your way after it is flying and the fly off is complete - later this spring. What airport is closest to your new house?
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Semper Fi,
Steven R. Hulland
CH 600 Taildragger
Amado, AZ
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Larry,
Thanks for the info. Tells me kinda where your house is. Have flown into Libby before - many years ago. Also Herford, Narco, Chocise, Douglas (both). The update on Libby's airspace is a big help. Fought wildland fires all over that area too!
Will post to net next time I plan on flying that way in the 600. Once it is flying.
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Semper Fi,
Steven R. Hulland
CH 600 Taildragger
Amado, AZ
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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After reading some of the resumes of people who actually know what all those funny looking tools are for, I hesitate to even open my mouth any more. (He who knows not, and knows not that he..............) I'm retired Air Force, having spent most of my career as an OSI agent, and finished up as Chief of Intelligence in a SAC missile Wing. Did a bunch of industrial engineering, security management, industrial safety, and finally hung it up at 64, wherupon I got my not-very-great American novel ("THOU SHALT KILL") published, and haven't done an honest day's work since. Unless you count playing with 601XL parts. But I did spend almost 25 years' worth of weekends and odd days playing Grasshopper to an A&P-AI, who tried to teach me a little something about aircraft mechanicking. Having fought the FAA through several special issuances, I decided to sell the Skyhawk and go the LSA route. When I grow up I want to be a 601XL pilot, if I live long enough to finish it.
Paul Rodriguez
601XL/Corvair
Like the Flying Dutchman, doomed to forever work on the canopy
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Ex-Det. Sgt Fontana PD, plumbing , heating A/C contractor, BA in Criminal Justice, CalState San Bernardino, Calif. Teaching credential Chapman University, teacher-coach K-12th grades. ex-CAF Col.( got to work on Corsair, TBM, AT-6, PT-19 etc) EAA Tech. Counselor, Young Eagles Coord. Chapter #768. Built & fly HRII N561FS with partner.
Driving 7th Corvette (first one '57 3speed in 1963), current '92 Red LT1 coupe 6 speed. 19 years as "Voice of the Raven's" (Bloomington Christian High School) until cancer took voicebox. Great friends & family. KABONG Do Not Archive
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Ok, since everyone else is doing it .....
I have 82 hours on my Jab-powered HDS, which took 7 years to complete.
Education and what I do now: 3 degrees in Geology, the last a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD in beautiful San Diego, CA.
I now teach high school physics, astrophysics, and geology at a small private school in Sun Valley, Idaho. Got the flying bug early from my father, who was in
the Army Air Force in WWII as a gunner in a P-61 "Black Widow". Luckily for me, his orders for combat were to be in Manila September 1st, 1945 - so he
got to train and ride around in great airplanes, but thanks to the A-bomb never had to see combat. I built models as a kid, flew and built 049-powered
line-controlled planes as a teenager, learned a little flying in my girlfriend's father's Supercub in high school, and then went into other things, mostly classical music
as an oboist, and into geology, eventually doing research on the record of the earth's magnetic field as recorded in the geologic past by deep sea ocean sediments.
Interesting stuff, but I found that I preferred working with students as a TA, and eventually came to the realization that that was where my best talents lay. Teaching
has proved to be a wonderful job; working with kids of a wide range of abilities is especially challenging (especially when in the same class!), but when things go
right - as they often do - I can't imagine a more rewarding job.
Oh, first flight - I demanded (and got) for my 10th birthday present a 20-minute ride - in a yellow J-3 Cub. Definitely unforgettable.
I got back into avaition through flight simulation in the mid 1990s, and started making add-on aircraft for Microsoft's Flight Simulator, eventually getting good enough
to do it commercially. I had several late-90s packages of add-on aircraft for Flight Sim, packaged on CDs and sold in retail outlets, including "Pilot's Toybox", and
my magnum opus, "Flight Deck" - a set of 30 carrier-based USN and USMC aircraft ranging from an F4F Wildcat to an F/A-18C, plus routines for landing and taking
off from the new carriers that came with the package. Flight Deck is now in its 4th iteration, and has evolved into a wonderful add-on for FS, published by Abacus Publishing
( www.abacuspub.com) . I had to leave it after "Flight Deck II", largely because the work load of creating increasingly detailed aircraft was not compatible with my teaching
job. Plus, I was trying to finish that Zodiac in my garage! I bought the 601 from Zenith in 1998, after attending a weekend workshop in Mexico, MO - and began pilot
training at the same time. Took my checkride and got my private pilot license in 1999, but didn't manage to finish the Zodiac until 2005 - about 4 years later than I had planned!
In the last year and a half I've nearly doubled my total hours from 100 to 182, all 82 in the Zodiac (the previous 100 being about equally divided between a Cessna 172 and
a Piper Archer). I flew the first flight on August 15, 2005 and had 40 hours on her by last February. I made a couple of cross country trips to Seattle last summer (about 4 hours
each way), and have learned the location, elevation, orientation and length of just about every small airport in southern Idaho. She's a fun plane to fly, with fantastic visibilty,
easy controls, and great climb - but a little slower in cruise than I would like. I drool over RV6 cruise numbers - especially for travel in these big western states - but defintely
do not want to make another aircraft - although the matched-hole technology would make it far easier the 2nd time around - I think.
I have made many iterations of the Zodiac for Flight Sim, the most recent for FS2004 (aka FS9), which are available at my website, http://members.cox.net/paulhartl/
(also available there are my T-38, F-16C and F-84G) - and at Zenith's site. I haven't yet made a version for FSX (aka FS10), but will do so in the next couple months,
once the new aircraft-making program from Abacus is up and running.
Wow, too much information, I'm sure - but we love to talk about ourselves, don't we?
Paul Hartl, N414PZ, 601 HDS, Jab 3300A
82 hours, 96 landings - lots of fun!
Hailey, Idaho
http://members.cox.net/paulhartl/
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Gig Giacona
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 1416 Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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I have a question about your 601XL Tricycle Sim. When ever I pull it enough to stall the engine quits and will not restart.
paulhartl(at)cox.net wrote: | Ok, since everyone else is doing it .....
I have made many iterations of the Zodiac for Flight Sim, the most recent for FS2004 (aka FS9), which are available at my website, http://members.cox.net/paulhartl/
(also available there are my T-38, F-16C and F-84G) - and at Zenith's site. I haven't yet made a version for FSX (aka FS10), but will do so in the next couple months,
once the new aircraft-making program from Abacus is up and running.
http://members.cox.net/paulhartl/
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Hi Paul;
will these work in X-plane?
Thanks.
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Paul Hartl <paulhartl(at)cox.net> wrote:
[quote] Ok, since everyone else is doing it .....
I have 82 hours on my Jab-powered HDS, which took 7 years to complete.
Education and what I do now: 3 degrees in Geology, the last a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD in beautiful San Diego, CA.
I now teach high school physics, astrophysics, and geology at a small private school in Sun Valley, Idaho. Got the flying bug early from my father, who was in
the Army Air Force in WWII as a gunner in a P-61 "Black Widow". Luckily for me, his orders for combat were to be in Manila September 1st, 1945 - so he
got to train and ride around in great airplanes, but thanks to the A-bomb never had to see combat. I built models as a kid, flew and built 049-powered
line-controlled planes as a teenager, learned a little flying in my girlfriend's father's Supercub in high school, and then went into other things, mostly classical music
as an oboist, and into geology, eventually doing research on the record of the earth's magnetic field as recorded in the geologic past by deep sea ocean sediments.
Interesting stuff, but I found that I preferred working with students as a TA, and eventually came to the realization that that was where my best talents lay. Teaching
has proved to be a wonderful job; working with kids of a wide range of abilities is especially challenging (especially when in the same class!), but when things go
right - as they often do - I can't imagine a more rewarding job.
Oh, first flight - I demanded (and got) for my 10th birthday present a 20-minute ride - in a yellow J-3 Cub. Definitely unforgettable.
I got back into avaition through flight simulation in the mid 1990s, and started making add-on aircraft for Microsoft's Flight Simulator, eventually getting good enough
to do it commercially. I had several late-90s packages of add-on aircraft for Flight Sim, packaged on CDs and sold in retail outlets, including "Pilot's Toybox", and
my magnum opus, "Flight Deck" - a set of 30 carrier-based USN and USMC aircraft ranging from an F4F Wildcat to an F/A-18C, plus routines for landing and taking
off from the new carriers that came with the package. Flight Deck is now in its 4th iteration, and has evolved into a wonderful add-on for FS, published by Abacus Publishing
( www.abacuspub.com) . I had to leave it after "Flight Deck II", largely because the work load of creating increasingly detailed aircraft was not compatible with my teaching
job. Plus, I was trying to finish that Zodiac in my garage! I bought the 601 from Zenith in 1998, after attending a weekend workshop in Mexico, MO - and began pilot
training at the same time. Took my checkride and got my private pilot license in 1999, but didn't manage to finish the Zodiac until 2005 - about 4 years later than I had planned!
In the last year and a half I've nearly doubled my total hours from 100 to 182, all 82 in the Zodiac (the previous 100 being about equally divided between a Cessna 172 and
a Piper Archer). I flew the first flight on August 15, 2005 and had 40 hours on her by last February. I made a couple of cross country trips to Seattle last summer (about 4 hours
each way), and have learned the location, elevation, orientation and length of just about every small airport in southern Idaho. She's a fun plane to fly, with fantastic visibilty,
easy controls, and great climb - but a little slower in cruise than I would like. I drool over RV6 cruise numbers - especially for travel in these big western states - but defintely
do not want to make another aircraft - although the matched-hole technology would make it far easier the 2nd time around - I think.
I have made many iterations of the Zodiac for Flight Sim, the most recent for FS2004 (aka FS9), which are available at my website, http://members.cox.net/paulhartl/
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DaveG601XL
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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My father took me to my first Oshkosh at age 12. That was 31 Oshkosh's ago and I have not missed hardly any since, so I have been into experimental aircraft for some time now. I finally got to the stage where I thought I was close enough to afford it. I still can't afford it but I figured to get a head start on bankruptcy! I got my license 20 years ago but have not flown as PIC for 18 years. I beg rides when I can. My father has a Pietenpol project that will never get done and my brother is getting close to completing a Rotec radial engined Pober Jr. Ace so building is certainly in the blood. I got my A&P while in college and after deciding that there was no money in being a mechanic (airlines were not hiring much in 1985), I got on with a big jet motor company doing R&D work. In my spare time aside from work, family and a 601XL build I am a volunteer Firefighter and EMT.
Good luck to all and safe flying!
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pilot4pay
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 171 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Greeting to the group! I just signed up for the March tail workshop. I'm planning to build an 801.
I have over 400 hrs on my ticket, half in 172 and half in 182. Recently IFR certified.
I'm a Navy Vet, (fire control tech gunnery, Spruance class destroyer DD985 out of SanDiego) and have worked in fields as diverse as image processing systems (early days, with hard drives as big as refrigerators), infra-red instrumentation, soil analysis TDR instrumentation, precision CNC equipment and machine tool automation manufactureing and robotics.
Currently working as an electrician at Ford Motor Companys' Wixom (soon to close) Assembly. Anyone looking for a reliable fast thinking electrical/electronic professional, send me a note, as I'm looking for an alternative to the automotive sector.
Interests include ameture astronomy (we have a Celestron Nexstar 5 Schmidt/Cass and an 8" Dobsonian), practical shootong sports/gunsmithing collecting, and computers. I also do some welding and light machining (Smithy Lathe/mill combination, Lincoln Mig welder).
Selling my certified T182T, and going the home build route. I love flying, and all that aviation entails. I also ride a '99 Honda VT1100t.
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Welcome CS,
The Zenith aircraft are great fun to build and nearly as much fun as
flying them.
I scratch built a 13 inch light bucket and cut my own gears etc before
the 601, so I appreciate
where you're at with this. You're going to find this a great ride!
Larry McFarland - 601HDS at www.macsmachine.com
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Greeting to the group! I just signed up for the March tail workshop. I'm planning to build an 801.
I have over 400 hrs on my ticket, half in 172 and half in 182. Recently IFR certified.
I'm a Navy Vet, (fire control tech gunnery, Spruance class destroyer DD985 out of SanDiego) and have worked in fields as diverse as image processing systems (early days, with hard drives as big as refrigerators), infra-red instrumentation, soil analysis TDR instrumentation, precision CNC equipment and machine tool automation manufactureing and robotics.
Currently working as an electrician at Ford Motor Companys' Wixom (soon to close) Assembly. Anyone looking for a reliable fast thinking electrical/electronic professional, send me a note, as I'm looking for an alternative to the automotive sector.
Interests include ameture astronomy (we have a Celestron Nexstar 5 Schmidt/Cass and an 8" Dobsonian), practical shootong sports/gunsmithing collecting, and computers. I also do some welding and light machining (Smithy Lathe/mill combination, Lincoln Mig welder).
Selling my certified T182T, and going the home build route. I love flying, and all that aviation entails. I also ride a '99 Honda VT1100t.
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CS
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: SORT OF AIRCRAFT RELATED |
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Paul-
Did you marry the girlfriend who's father had the Super Cub?
do not archive
Bill Naumuk
HDS Fuselage
Townville, Pa
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