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Mauledriver(at)nc.rr.com
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 Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:41 am Post subject: Tim Olson latest post "My rv building prayer" |
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I had the pleasure of meeting Tim during my first RV10 charged visit to
Osh. I was already in awe of the resource he had created for those of
us following behind. Everything he did reflected an intelligence and
energy that I marveled at and willingly tapped. Above all, his decision
making had a maturity that seemed beyond his relative youth.
Having just found his RV-14 site and the building prayer fills in some
of the missing pieces. Nicely said and shared Tim!
BTW, he's as nice and helpful and resourceful in person as he is out
here in the ether. If you can get a chance to meet him even briefly, do
it, because it sounds like he's getting even busier going forward.
Bill "thinking about writing the 7 deadly sins of building" Watson
On 2/10/2014 12:28 AM, Jackm wrote:
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I do not know Tim personally but have been on his website numerous times as I think many of us have. He has created a huge resource for us as builders and someday would like to thank him in person ....but... the real reason for this post is I have read his latest post numerous times again and love the message he has in it. I too, can relate to many things Tim expresses in this post and I believe any builder struggling should read that post. There is so much to life and Tim nails it on the head what really is important but yet has followed a dream as many of us are. Thank you Tim, Andrea and your children.
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Jackm
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cooprv7(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:11 am Post subject: Tim Olson latest post "My rv building prayer" |
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I wanted to add a thanks for Tim’s account as well and will PM him with more details. However, this inspired me to relate a story of just how awesome the RV-10 is and a particularly surprise benefit one night.
I’ve used the airplane to haul people and even furniture to my kids at college and the RV-10s performance is simply astounding. However, on 28 Mar of last year, my wife were at home in northern VA when I get a call from my son-in-law near Chicago telling us that our daughter’s water had broken and they were on the way to the hospital for the delivery of our first grandchild. It was 6:30 and after telling my wife the surprising news, as she was 2 weeks early which is unheard of in our families, I checked the airline schedules and there was one flight left that night with one open seat. Although I have flown a great deal at night, it was usually either sitting on an ejection seat or an airplane with at least 2 jet engines and I’ve tended to shy away from night cross countries in the RV-10. However, the airplane has been wonderfully reliable for over 600 hours at that point so we headed to the airport and within 4 hours of getting the call were in DuPage, IL and driving to the hospital. I had filed direct and while I normally get routed around ORD via Joliet, when the reroute came over the radio I told the controller “my daughter is in labor and we are on our way to see her, any chance of a shortcut”…”roger, cleared direct”. This happened three times before the next controller just said “congratulations, cleared direct” when I checked in. In short, we got to the hospital before she even really started into labor and thus experienced a number of blessings that night. While at times a financial challenge to keep an airplane given all of the overhead, my wife emphatically declared, “we are never selling this airplane!”  A week later I flew the full size crib I had made for the little one with its spring frame and mattress to them, this machine is amazing. The RV-10 has afforded us many opportunities which would have been otherwise impossible, most of which were unforseen, for which we are very thankful and I appreciate Tim’s perspective on such projects along with his indispensable website full of!
tips an
d suggestions.
Cheers,
Marcus
On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Bill Watson <Mauledriver(at)nc.rr.com> wrote:
I had the pleasure of meeting Tim during my first RV10 charged visit to Osh. I was already in awe of the resource he had created for those of us following behind. Everything he did reflected an intelligence and energy that I marveled at and willingly tapped. Above all, his decision making had a maturity that seemed beyond his relative youth.
Having just found his RV-14 site and the building prayer fills in some of the missing pieces. Nicely said and shared Tim!
BTW, he's as nice and helpful and resourceful in person as he is out here in the ether. If you can get a chance to meet him even briefly, do it, because it sounds like he's getting even busier going forward.
Bill "thinking about writing the 7 deadly sins of building" Watson
On 2/10/2014 12:28 AM, Jackm wrote:
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I do not know Tim personally but have been on his website numerous times as I think many of us have. He has created a huge resource for us as builders and someday would like to thank him in person ....but... the real reason for this post is I have read his latest post numerous times again and love the message he has in it. I too, can relate to many things Tim expresses in this post and I believe any builder struggling should read that post. There is so much to life and Tim nails it on the head what really is important but yet has followed a dream as many of us are. Thank you Tim, Andrea and your children.
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Jackm
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bwestfall
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| Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:00 pm Post subject: Tim Olson latest post "My rv building prayer" |
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Marcus and Jack I concur. Longer version follows...
Tim's accounts (and many others) mean so much to me as I've struggled to
consistently pickup working on our 10 kit with any steam since our first
child was born in Sept 2009. Fast forward to today... 2 kids, 1 house
addition, backyard and patio re-do, stint of unemployment w/o feeling
comfortable dropping additional $$ on the kit, starting a business to cure
the unemployment (that sucks all time known to man), having another side
business that eats even more time, juggling time w/wife and kids, and here
we are today 2013 w/the progress being a slow trickle.
My wife and I started building in May 2006 and we worked side by side most
the time till late spring 2009 midway through the first pregnancy. We
completed up to the cabin top install and a rough pass on the doors before
the CISD "child induced slow down" got a hold. I've struggled on and off
through the years thinking that it would improve my state of mind if I sold
the kit so I didn't have to look at it collecting dust in the garage. I
cannot quite come to that as truthfully I'd end up too resentful. I know it
will be such a good "family plane" that I hold out hope for completion while
the kids are young and impressionable. I struggle with how will I swallow
the last 600 or so hours of work in front of me when I'm lucky to get 10
hours a month in! Well that's what your knees are for I guess and I should
take a lesson from Tim and pray about it more. Oh yeah and during all this
try to fly enough to hopefully remember how when it comes to that.
It's helped having 2 local builders to share in their successes. Mark
Cooper and David Halmos, Mark has completed and flown and David just moved
his out of the garage to paint. Following w/them I've had flashes of
brilliance thinking I can get things done. In the last year or two I've had
2 or 3 hour stints for several weeks working on the project regularly before
slipping into another 3 month "hiatus". Gone is the "family project"
atmosphere though. The reality is it's time away from the wife and kids as
4 & 2 year olds don't "add" to the productivity.
If I look back over a longer period (a year to two) I have made progress it
just doesn't feel like it. Doors are done w/retrofit for mcmaster seals,
all windows glued in, cabin top is on for good, Geoff Comb's interior
installed and painted, it's on the gear, finished the wheel pants and gear
leg fairings using Dave Saylors intersection fairing method, completed all
the firewall pass trough's and prep for mounting the motor which is where
I'm currently at and I should have the motor in the next week or two. I'm
looking forward to something other than fiberglass as it's hard to get
motivated for that in the cold.
End ramble,
Ben Westfall
Portland, OR
PS. I stumbled on this video a while back and I thought it was pretty
special http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOInCAxNm8. A real motivator to
keep me building as I watched and laughed along seeing the kids in this.
Quite funny and endearing at the same time.
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