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20 year project FINALLY complete!

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I hardly ever post, but I think this justifies one.
In December 1994 I received some raw materials as a Christmas present from my parents. As a freshman in high school, I started building my plane. I worked on and off on it throughout high school, and college. I had LOTS of help from my father. After college I got married, and as I am sure you can imagine, life got in the way. The project would go for months on end without being touched. Sometimes it was even years between construction. After my father retired, he finished his RV8. Once that was complete, it was time to start back on my project. With lots of hard work from him, we finally finished the project, and the test flight occurred on 01/01/2015, twenty years later!

The airplane is almost entirely built from the plans, with a couple modifications.

1). Spring aluminum gear
2). A two place canopy

180HP Lycoming
76EM8-0-56 Propeller

During the test flight, the airplane flew perfectly. Hands off straight and level. We could not have gotten the rigging any better. At 2400RPM it cruised 140 MPH. At 2700RPM it cruised 150 MPH. We were extremely pleased. I don't want to ramble on, I just wanted to share a little of my story. Anyway, here is a pic.

Scot
 
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