EAA Beer Bash

Jay Honeck wrote:

For you - maybe, but for someone who loves the building aspect, life is
too short for *flying* because it means they spend less time *building*.


That's just...wrong.

;-)

I'm a wood-worker, and enjoy creating and repairing things -- but flying is
so vastly superior to any other human endeavor, it's hard for me to imagine
giving up one moment of it in favor of sanding fiberglass or bucking
rivets...

Jay, Jay, Jay ... you need to expand your horizons. :-)


Matt

Jay Honeck wrote:
For you - maybe, but for someone who loves the building aspect,
life is
too short for *flying* because it means they spend less time
*building*.

That's just...wrong.

;-)

It's a personality thing. My pal Doug has been working every night
and weekend on the RV-10 and it's ready to fly after about a year and a
half. He previously built an RV-6 (slow build, no pre-punch) in about
13 months. He tells me that he's doing the building so that he can have
a new, cool, affordable airplane to fly, but I'm convinced he's hooked
on the building process. In between airplanes, he can usually be found
tearing out walls and reconfiguring his house. The good part about
this is that my sweat equity in his airplanes gives me 1st shot at
buying the plane if (I mean when) he decides to sell. He has sworn
that he'll be keeping the RV-10 forever, but he said that about the
RV-6 too. Someday it will be mine! Thank heaven for compulsive
builders!

For those interested, here's a site with the chronology of the build :

http://www.rvator.com

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:11:07 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in vhGie.3725$796.3332@attbi_s21::

He would have spent 3000
nights in an unheated hangar, by himself, and for what?

For the sheer joy of accomplishment as a result of having constructed
a useful machine with his bare hands.

Life is just too short to use that kind of time.

That's a subjective opinion.

Flying is life.

I firmly believe the bulk of aircraft home-builders are mechanics
first, and aviators second. Certainly most of them spend more time in
the hangar than in the air.

Not me. I'd rather fly than build.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:11:07 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in vhGie.3725$796.3332@attbi_s21::

He would have spent 3000
nights in an unheated hangar, by himself, and for what?

For the sheer joy of accomplishment as a result of having constructed
a useful machine with his bare hands.

Life is just too short to use that kind of time.

That's a subjective opinion.

Flying is life.

I firmly believe the bulk of aircraft home-builders are mechanics
first, and aviators second. Certainly most of them spend more time in
the hangar than in the air.

Jay Honeck wrote:
Poor folks, I think building would be fun, but only if I had a working
plane and time to build and fly. I guess retirement can't come soon
enough! I tell you having the Navion down for 3 years almost killed me.


I don't know how you did it. I trust you kept current in rental planes?

We've got friends who just finished their Glasair III last month. It's the
single most beautifully crafted airplane I've ever seen -- but it took him
TEN YEARS to build!

During that decade his wife discovered she had breast cancer, and was
thankfully able to beat it. But during that decade he spent every, single
night building, first in his home, then in his hangar. Night after night
after night...

What if that had been *him* that got cancer? He would have spent 3000
nights in an unheated hangar, by himself, and for what?

Life is just too short to use that kind of time.

Flying is life.

For some, building is life. I like to fly, but I also like to build. I
can't wait until retirement will give me the time (with 3 kids now isn't
the time). I could build for years and derive great satisfaction from
that alone ... even if I never got to fly the result.


Matt

Jay Honeck wrote:
Poor folks, I think building would be fun, but only if I had a working
plane and time to build and fly. I guess retirement can't come soon
enough! I tell you having the Navion down for 3 years almost killed me.


I don't know how you did it. I trust you kept current in rental planes?

I wish I had! I took an instructor to pick up the plane and do my BFR.
I have to get checked out in a 172 for our trip to Au and I haven't
flown one of those in 10 + years. I think I might hang out with
instructors for a bit!

Margy