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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:02 pm    Post subject: Inspiration - Ultimate Air-To-Air Shot... Reply with quote

Fellow RVers,

If you feeling like you needed a little inspiration on that RV project, check out the attached photo. What an awesome shot of a P-51 Mustang leading a flight of 7 RVs!! Totally cool! Makes me wish my RV-8 was rebuilt. But then, what doesn't... Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:26 am    Post subject: Inspiration - Ultimate Air-To-Air Shot... Reply with quote

Ah, never mind. Now I see your rebuild web page. I didn't know you had the mishap. Glad you're okay and that the gear didn't fold.
Good luck with your rebuild. Maybe add a nose wheel like mine?� : )
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:14 am    Post subject: Inspiration - Ultimate Air-To-Air Shot... Reply with quote

Nice Log Matt, but sorry for the occasion. That had to be a very violent event ... seeing all the damage. Good work in saving the landing as much as you did.

As to your lessons, I certainly agree with your "don't try to make the turn-off." But is there another lesson? In addition to a maximum crosswind component (especially for tail draggers), should we have a simple maximum wind speed limit? ... or maybe a maximum gust component (e.g., Vgust - Vsteady)? Any gust is bound to not be dead nuts down the centerline ... and should produce differential lift that is hard to handle until the airplane is fully planted and slowed ... again, especially in a tail dragger, but also in a nose dragger.

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On Jul 7, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Matt Dralle wrote:

Fellow RVers,

If you feeling like you needed a little inspiration on that RV project, check out the attached photo. What an awesome shot of a P-51 Mustang leading a flight of 7 RVs!! Totally cool! Makes me wish my RV-8 was rebuilt. But then, what doesn't... Wink

Matt

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Matt Dralle
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http://www.mattsrv8.com - Matt's Complete RV-8 Construction Log
http://www.mattsrv8.com/Mishap - Landing Mishap Rebuild Log
http://www.youtube.com/MattsRV8 - Matt's RV-8 HDTV YouTube Channel
Status: 170+ Hours TTSN - Rebuilding Fuselage After Landing Mishap... <P-51 Mustang Leading Flight of RVs.jpg>


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:49 am    Post subject: Inspiration - Ultimate Air-To-Air Shot... Reply with quote

At 08:21 AM 7/8/2011 Friday, you wrote:
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Ah, never mind. Now I see your rebuild web page. I didn't know you had the mishap. Glad you're okay and that the gear didn't fold.
Good luck with your rebuild. Maybe add a nose wheel like mine? : )
Stan Sutterfield

In a message dated 7/8/2011 3:09:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Matt Dralle writes:
Makes me wish my RV-8 was rebuilt


Yeah, its quite the bummer. I figure about 1172 hours to rebuild. Let me tell you, it has been really emotionally difficult to deconstruct a mostly perfect fuselage. Every time I un-build a different part of the old fuselage salvaging parts to put on the new fuselage, I am reminded of all the work involved in building one of these airplanes.

But, this week I actually started real construction on the new fuselage and that felt good. Also, a lot of the replacement parts (wiring, connectors, etc) started arriving this week and getting presents in the mail always cheers me up. Smile

Be careful out there. The RVs seem really stout, but they're really pretty fragile. I wasn't going that fast and the mishap really wasn't that big of a deal - I see guys in C-150's doing stuff like it all the time - but the damage can be disproportionately great.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:33 pm    Post subject: Inspiration - Ultimate Air-To-Air Shot... Reply with quote

Stan, I had not heard your plane was messed up, What happened? If I can help let me know. Bill Phillips, N288WP, RV-8a, 9 hours into Phase i








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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:01 pm    Post subject: Inspiration - Ultimate Air-To-Air Shot... Reply with quote

Stan's plane isn't the one messed up, mine is! Smile or Sad depending on how you look at it...

Matt

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[quote]Stan, I had not heard your plane was messed up, What happened? If I can help let me know. Bill Phillips, N288WP, RV-8a, 9 hours into Phase i

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