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Information (My required daily reading)
- Van's
Aircraft
The center of the RV universe.
- Van's
Airforce Doug Reeve's maintains the World
Wide Wing and has tons of information and inspiration.
- Van's
Airforce Forums
Doug Reeve's has created a web-based set of RV Forums. He
intends to replace the Yahoo Boards with this. It's new
as of December 2004 but growing.
- The
Matronics RV-9 List There are
also
Matronics lists for other RVs and even non RV builders
and for the Matroncs product line.
- Yahoo
RV-9 Board Worth checking out periodically
even with the clunky Yahoo interface and advertisements.
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RV-9
Builders (An arbitrary list I enjoy and turn
to for help, information, and inspriation)
- Mike
Hoover - Mike is building kit number
90709 and my kit is 90702. He lives about an hour from my
brother's house and is doing some fine work assembling his
kit. Mikes site has really been improved during 2004.
- Warren
Hurd Anyone that names their cats Cleco
and Rivet and ponders the Zen of aircraft construction while
buiding an RV-9A can't be all bad.
- Vern
Little British Columbia must have more
builders per capita than any other place on earth. Vern
is one of BC's builders.
- Bill
Repucci Bill has an aircraft factory
in his basement too. He's quite a bit ahead of me and located
in NC. His site details his work and opinions well.
- John
Spicer A builder to the north of me.
- Ray
Swanson
Another RV-9A builder in Richmond, VA at almost the same
stage of building as me.
Builders
who have completed their RV (mostly
since I started building)
- Todd
Bartrim In late 2003 Todd completed a flying
9A powered by a Mazda 13B rotary engine. (Flying)
- Matthew
and Sandi Brandes Matthew is an RV 9A
builder that views himself as a simple man. He says his
wife disagrees and my guess is she's right. Simple men don't
have web cams or modify plane plans to extend fuel capacity.
We'll we were neck and neck but he's pulled out way in front
of me now. At one point we were at about the same place
in our assembly process and then I met the woman of my dreams
and Matthew finished his RV while I took care of more important
things.
- Tim
Coldenhoff Interesting
commentary, helpful techniques and good photos of a 9 nearing
completion. Another builder that finished while I was building.
- Brad
Hiatt An repeat offender building an
RV 9A after completing and selling an RV-6. Good stuff and
lots of photos.
- Chris
Heitman Another 2003 completion. Perhaps
I should spend more time building and less time surfing
the web and updating this site. (Flying)
- Andy
Karmy Andy's site documents construction
of his recently completed RV 9A. Refreshingly frank. (Flying)
- Clay
R. In addition to a well documented construction
process, Clay has photos of most completed RV 9s and current
constructon notes and photos. (Flying)
- Mike
Schipper
I discovered Mike's this summer (05) and he has a knack
for taking pictures that answer questions I'm inclined to
ask. He also has found the same problems along the way that
I've found (just recently the longerons don't fit in the
slots Van's cuts in the bulkheads). Very helpful site.
- John
and Vivian Rotunda John
and Vivian are documenting their work on a 9A quick build
and have lots of good photos and interesting descriptions.
(Flying)
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Interesting RV Sites
- Sam
Buchanan
Sam's web site has a lot of solid information
and tips with a touch of humor. He built his 6 quickly and
shares the 'secret' of good planning. Build the plan in
your mind then do it for real.
- Gert
I don't have a clue who Gert is. He might
be kin to the boy named Sue but with an inclination toward
aviation. He posts on the Matronix list regularly and has
a web site with information on anodizing, a pneumatic dimpler
and several RV modifications.
Local
Associations
- EAA
Chapter 231 It
probably doesn't count as therapy if all you get is encouragement
for your addiction. Meetings are the 2nd Friday of the month
at 7:30 at the Aviation Museum.
- Mid
Atlantic RV Wing
Another Yahoo Group. I'm working on one of
my dreams - flying to a MARV WAM in a plane I built.
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Accessories (and gadgets I'm considering)
- Affordable
Panels As
you might expect, Affordable Panels makes aftermarket instrument
panels for RVs. You just tell Van's you won't be needing
the panel and you'll get a $24.75 credit when you buy your
fuselage. For either $265 or $295 depending on which panel
you order, you can get your new panel from these folks.
It's modular and should make upgrading easier. You can also
let Van's keep your plastic vents saving you $35 and buy
aluminum vents for $278/pr. If you figure out where the
affordable part comes into play, let me know. I'm just getting
the panel.
- Aircraft
Extras Several interesting RV options
including a tipup modification for the sliding canopy.
- Attaway
Air
ECI experimental engines (a Lycoming clone) and accessories
for RVs by another RV builder.
- CreativeAir
Check these guys out before settling on your plane's lights.
Again, another RV builder selling some of his better ideas.
- Dynon
Devleopment A $2,000 replacement for
the AH that provides a wealth of data and can provide redundancy...but
VFR only, imo. Upon reflection, a $2,000 VFR only replacement
for your AH doesn't make logical sense...but it's still
very cool.
- Grand
Rapids Technology This is a link to their
new website. It's an improvement
over their old website and in the final analysis I'd have
to say they're putting their time into EFIS development
not website development (good priorities, imo). I'd like
to put 2 units in so I can have the EFIS and the graphical
EIS simultaneously without having to split the screen.
- InAir
Instruments, LLC I think this is a one
man outfit that makes a better than average Lift Reserve
Indicator (very similar to an Angle of Attack Indicator
but not quite the same) that's reasonably priced. Sam
Buchanon has reviewed
the product and I can't add a thing to his words of wisdom,
yet. The owner is building an RV-6 and loves talking with
other RV builders so be sure to mention if you're building
an RV.
- SteinAir
They
have quite a list of goodies for the hombuilder (including
EFIS's, Avionics, Auto Pilots and a lot of neat electrical
stuff). Stein Bruch is also an RV builder.
- TruTrak
An incredible value in experimental autopilots.
There's no doubt one of these, hopefully the basic 2 axis
unit, will grace my panel....and they interface with the
GRT EFIS and darn near any GPS unit - even handhelds.
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