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Do what yer' Momma said...
Go Play!
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| RV-9A Construction Log: |
Total RV-9A construction time so far: 1031 Hours, 40 Minutes
Current Construction Phase: Electrical - Part 2
Here's the latest entry:
 5/15/2012 - Fired up the D-100
Hitting the "ON" switch is kind of like getting married, ya' don't know what's going to happen next. I hooked up the GTX 327 transponder to the Dynon EFIS D-100 according to the instructions, hooking the D-100 pin 13 to GTX 327 pin 19 and then making sure both units use the same avionics ground. Then for the EFIS to talk to the transponder, I had to go into the menu on the EFIS and set the encoder setting to Format 4. To my surprise the som-bitch worked (a famous quote from my father).
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| Search the World's Largest Aviation Calendar of Events from your website! |
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| Looking for a place to fly? Hopefully this will make it just a little easier. Here's a
little application I wrote that allows you search the National EAA Calendar from your personal website. Just copy
and paste the following HTML to any web page on your website: |
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| The Latest Aviation Videos! |
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Formation takeoff from runway 09 at KOSH featuring The Aerostars
Another quick snippet of footage shot filming for "The Aviators" which airs across the US on PBS, in Canada on Travel+Escape and overseas on Discovery as well as online on iTunes and Hulu. This clip features the incredible Aerostars Aerobatic Team. See if you can spot our cameraman filming for the segment.
- YouTube - TheAviatorsTV
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William Rankin, The Man Who Rode The Thunder
This story is legendary. And it begins with a legendary aircraft, the F8 Crusader. The Crusader was the first American fighter to fly faster than 1,000 miles per hour. in 1957, then future astronaut and senator John Glenn piloted one to set a transcontinental speed record. In vietnam it earned a kill ratio of 6:1. and In 1962 camera-equipped unarmed Crusaders retrieved photographic evidence flying over Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis. the jet's abilities were in many ways unrivaled, but our story begins with one instance where they fell short. And that story begins with William Rankin, the man who rode the thunder.
- YouTube - AVweb
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PNW Flying III
Some more clips of flying here in the Pacific NW.
- YouTube - shammah98
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EAA Chapter 1246 Annual Fish Fry
Good friends, good food and Airplanes! Ya' just can't beat it!
- YouTube - FunPlacesToFly.com
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Citation ILS Approach to Wichita, KS (fast forward)
Citation ILS Approach to Wichita
- YouTube - SportysVideos
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Teaser for Dead Stick Takeoff Flying Adventures video
Teaser for a 45 minute video called Dead Stick Takeoff Flying Adventures. Go to http://deadsticktakeoff.com/ to get it.
- YouTube - taildrgfun
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Dead Stick Takeoff, flight and landing
Dead Stick takeoff, 2 mile flight and landing.
- YouTube - AOPALive
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Brotherly love RV-7 style
Brothers take a airplane ride through the mountains in Western Canada.
- YouTube - DPSDDS
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| Why the RV-9A? |
The RV-9A is a
2-seat all-aluminum airplane, designed to be an easy-to-fly, economical and versatile aircraft.
It has an average cruise of about 180mph and only burns about 7.5gph.
It was designed for day-to-day flying, local trips and short cross-countries, with occasional
long flights. Thanks to it's larger wings and long slotted flaps, even low time pilots find it
easy to fly and land. Unlike it's sister aircraft, the RV-7A, the RV-9A it is not aerobatic.
That's OK with me, since I like the contents of my stomach to stay where they are. I helped a
friend of mine assemble the empennage on his RV-7A and I have already noticed that the RV-9A
empennage is much easier to build. As of February 12, 2007,
Van's Aircraft has over 4,997
aircraft completed by everday common folk using the skills they aquired in the building process.
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| Random RV Aircraft Pics - just fer fun... |
 Gary Holemon's RV-8
Reserve Champion, EAA Southeast Regional Fly-in 2008. Powered by ECI 180 hp O-360 with a Hartzell constant speed blended airfoil.
Click here to see the RV Photo Album.
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| The "cover your butt" section |
This website was built to document my work on my RV-9A in
compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by
no means to be considered as instructions on how to build an RV-9A or any other aircraft.
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