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builders' remorse?
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:05:44 GMT, "Ebby"
wrote: For me it's both. For me it's the journey (build) not the destination (the flight). Sometimes I tell people I am going to do a Howard Hughes. Fly it once and sell it. This type of project is a great source of pride learning the techniques of welding, fabric, paint, wood ...well you builders know what I mean. I build to save money although my project is not what any one would call cheap or inexpensive. I build because I can not buy a certificated plane with the same capabilities, and I build because I like to build things and like others be able to say: I built that! At the rate I build I can't see an end date so I'll just fly my Challenger 180 in the meantime and dream about flying the Hatz biplane. Here my problem is when building I feel like I should be out flying to keep proficient. When out flying I feel like I should be home building so I can get "that thing" finished.:-)) Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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builders' remorse?
Gene, that's a fascinating question. There's no doubt that anyone
taking on a building project has some sense of what building an airplane is like, and thinks they like building. Do we learn anything in the building process that might be useful to others who are contemplating starting their own project? Did it seem easy and then you hit a wall? Was it technically easy but tedious? After it was done, did you hate the thought of building another one? Was there a moment, as Scott so eloquently described it, where all the hard work was worth it? |
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builders' remorse?
I love to fly, but being middle-aged with young kids, the only way I
can afford it is to build my own. Don't get me wrong - I'm enjoying the building process. But my go-to-sleep last drifty thoughts are usually of preflighting and propping rather than planing and glueing. Then I dream of soaring on laughter-silvered wings - wings that I built with my own two hands. Tom Young wrote: "Gene Seibel" ... wrote... I believe there are flyers and builders. I am a flyer. Building doesn't appeal to me. I see people spending years on a building project and it appears they have some attraction to the building process. It seems to be a valued part of their life like flying is a part of mine. As a flyer, I wouldn't have the patience to build an airplane. Is it the dream of actually flying the airplane or the building process that most homebuilders are looking for? Just curious. Some writers have to write, some artists have to paint, some flyers have to build. That's how it is for me, anyway. I couldn't come anywhere close to justifying the time and expense otherwise. I'm building an RV-4, which you can pretty much buy already built for the money it's going to cost in the end. I gotta do it myself. Tom Young |
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