Help! Tell us what you've built/restored!

[Hal Bryan]

Hi everyone -

One of the things I've taken on in my new role as Senior Editor is the "What Our Members are Building/Restoring" section of Sport Aviation magazine, and I'm running a little light on submissions.

If you've completed a homebuilt or a restoration project and haven't been featured in the magazine, please let me know! Even if it's something you finished a couple of years ago, these stories are timeless, and I want to tell them.

Please email me at: editorial@eaa.org with:



Clear, uncluttered, high-res photo(s) of your finished aircraft. In-progress photos are welcomed for longer stories - see next bullet.
An essay in your own words about the project, minimum of 200 words, or 700 - 800 words if you'd like to submit a longer story.
The attached questionnaire, filled out - this is optional, but it helps some people structure their story.


If you know of other projects we haven't featured, let me know about those, too - leads are welcomed!

Thanks everybody -

Hal

[Jim Hann]

Send stuff in people! Otherwise he will track you down! If you don't believe me, check pg 82 of December's Sport Aviation! He's relentless!!! :D


(Thanks for the kick in the pants Hal!)

[Frank Giger]

Sheesh, I'm getting there, gimme just a little more time!

:)

[champ driver]

I have a 7AC restoration project that I'm working on, but it's a long way from completion. Not much to show except wings and fuselage on saw horses.
I'll send something in when it's finished.

[Hal Bryan]

I have a 7AC restoration project that I'm working on, but it's a long way from completion. Not much to show except wings and fuselage on saw horses.
I'll send something in when it's finished.

Can't wait to see it - I've always loved Champs! There's a Champ in January's issue done by a good friend of mine. Hope that provides a little inspiration!


Sheesh, I'm getting there, gimme just a little more time!

:)

Frank, don't make me come down there and finish that Nieuport for you...! ;)

[wyoranch]

Perhaps if Frank would have hired an administrative assistant to do all of his postings he would have been done with his plane by now. Just thinking out loud.... Lol
rick "getting impatient waiting for Frank's SAFE first flight" H

[champ driver]

Hal, here's a photo of it in the hangar, unfortunately it's an old unheated hangar in MN so it's impossible to work out there until spring.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee225/jamesgevay/7AC%20Champ/IMG_5962%20800x533_zpsl8dhmfq4.jpg (http://s228.photobucket.com/user/jamesgevay/media/7AC%20Champ/IMG_5962%20800x533_zpsl8dhmfq4.jpg.html)

[Hal Bryan]

Looking good so far - keep us posted!

[MickYoumans]

Done :)

[mark richtig]

anyone have a scorpion 133? im building one and need help

[n743tc]

Hello all, just joined, newbe here.
Completed my LongEZ in late 1980's, Builders assist in several other EZ projects after that. Assisted in building of the Rutan Voyager. For more info please see my members profile. My fingers are tired.
Tom

[Hal Bryan]

Bumping this one back up to the top - we could really use some more submissions, so, if we haven't featured your project, send us your story!

Thanks!

Hal

[Dick Rake]

I have a Mini-max that I built from plans back in 1994. I started with a Kawasaki 440 but later changed to Hirth 2704. Nice flying airplane.
6747

[Hal Bryan]

Hi Dick - great looking airplane! How about doing a brief (200 word) write-up for the magazine? If you're willing, send it, along with a photo, to editorial@eaa.org. Hope to hear from you!

- Hal

[Hal Bryan]

Bumping this one to the top once again - I really need your stories, please help if you can!

See the first post (http://eaaforums.org/showthread.php?6361-Help!-Tell-us-what-you-ve-built-restored!&p=51952&viewfull=1#post51952) in this thread for details.

Thanks!

Hal

[Bill Greenwood]

It's been years, but my friend and co pilot Maj. Warner Giles built a Starlite, the predecessor to the Pulsar. It is tiny ,but unlike many of the low end planes it is not slow and sort of a powered hang glider or Cub variation. It is a sleek low wing monoplane, and fast for it s sizw. We opened the box and there are the two halves of he fuselage, from firewall to tail and they are split down the middle. We spread some of the glue, sophisticated and hi teck epoxy on the flange , fit them together held by bunges or something, and let it set an hour. Im thinking one day Im going to be test flying this thing and will it really hold. Then we try to wipe or sand off the excess epoxy at the joint and its like steel, no more worries about that. It fit in the back shed at his mobile home and he did most of the work as I had a ski injury then. The top skin of the wing was balsa wood, impossible light but strong enough.
2 Hang up, the 2 stroke Rotax 337 engine sounded awful but ran just fine, Next finding enough room for a parachute when I test flew it. It flew just fine, would go about 140 mph. Flew good, ground handling was not so good. It looked sleek and cool.

[Jake Speed]

Sports cars,

Jake Speed

[melann]

Tierra II (2 seat ultralight type)
Spitfire II (2 seat ultralight type)
Moni Motorglider (designed conventional landing gear, featured in Sport Aviation May 1986)
Dragonfly Mark II
RV-6
RV-6
Zenair Zodiac Speed Wing
Modified Murphy Renegade II (90% complete & for sale)
Rebuilt multiple RVs and assisted build of several more.

[Dumbthumbs]

I suppose this is a good place to introduce myself. My name is Mike. I live in New Mexico and I'm rebuilding the Frieberger Ron's 1. Frieberger was a design engineer for GM. He designed and built the Ron's 1 in 1969-70. Since Ron was an enthusiastic aerobatic pilot the Ron's 1 was built for high-energy maneuvers (his favorite trick was to roll the airplane on takeoff). Since Ron sold it, the plane has gone through a storied and unfortunate history. I'm the third owner and I intend to return it to its original configuration. Since Ron has gone west there is precious little in the way of original documents and logs, so I'm reverse-engineering a lot of the systems. The people I bought it from claimed to have rebuilt it, but in fact merely re-assembled it from whatever they had on hand. So, I have my work cut out for me. I hope I can pick your brains and in return I'll share what little I have.8295

[Stolch]

To paraphrase a song by the band Hot Chocolate,
“It started with a kit...”
My wife (appropriately named Amelia) and I drug the kit home in May of 2016 and completed it in July of last year. Almost done flying off the 40 hours. Wonderful little STOL machine, not a cross country cruiser but perfect for launching off our back yard airstrip out in the county. Basic VFR equipped, Rotax 912 80hp, Whirlwind prop, Stewart Systems paint we sprayed in a homemade paint booth. Our home field is 1,000 ft of turf with trees at each end. No problem even on a hot Summer day. Doors are off except in Winter.