out of curiosity, what does it matter how many OTHER people have finished the project? Or how LONG they took to build it. There are so many factors in that, and RV's are the biggest and most successful experimental, so just by shear numbers of kits sold, of course they are going to have more finished.

what matters is how long YOU will build it. How long you WANT to spend building and what your level of skills are for building. I would say whats more important is finding the aircraft that fits YOUR mission. Nothing saying you can't find a kit that has been started, to save you some time.