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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: 1047 Hours, 40 Minutes
Current Construction Phase: Canopy
Here's the latest entry:
 3/24/2013 - Time to get back at it
I started working today on some of the canopy components, mainly the canopy tracks and the rear slider block.
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| RV Specific Google Search |
Tired of trying to find RV stuff or how to do something on your aircraft?
This Google search engine only looks for information on RV-related websites.
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| RV Aircraft Related Homebuilder How-to Videos |
Videos are the best way (at least for me) to learn how to do something. I put this collection of RV related how-to
videos together as quick reference for myself as well as any other builder that may be looking for the same
information. If you know of another video that was helpful to you, please email me and include the link to that video.
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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... |
 Great photo from Pete Howell
Tom Berge's yellowbird -7A in the background. Photo by -7 builder Peter Fruehling, Mike Behnke cameraship pilot.
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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