Pettersson
I'm New Here
Hello everybody!
Just wanted to say hi as I am just about to start the adventure of my life, building my own airplane, and when building a RV-4 this seems like the best place to meet people who is doing or has already done the same thing.
That it became a RV-4 has more to do with luck than anything else. I had the fortune to find a kit that has been around for a while, the empennage is built but that is about it. I never thought that I would be able to build an airplane like this but with the price of this kit it suddenly became reality.
At the moment I am inventorying the kit and cleaning the parts. Most of the stuff looks to be ok, some are missing and others are a little dented but no major problems so far, except for maybe a dent in one of the spars at the tip, should not be too hard to fix.
Here where I live (Sweden) one needs a ?Permission to build? before one can start, so I am working on that part at the moment. The great thing with homebuilding in Sweden is that all the inspections, paperwork and so on are handled by EAA, so one does not have to deal at all with ?Transportstyrelsen?, our FAA.
I guess that the actual building will not start until the spring, need to get the shop in order, buy the tools and get the paperwork in order first. Then it is building time.
One strange thing is that the original owner, who sadly is not around anymore, has primed the ribs that go inside the tank, so I guess I will be ordering new tank ribs. I don?t know if priming the parts inside the tanks are a bad id?e but I have not heard anyone else that has done that. Anyone that has anything to say about that?
/Fredrik
Just wanted to say hi as I am just about to start the adventure of my life, building my own airplane, and when building a RV-4 this seems like the best place to meet people who is doing or has already done the same thing.
That it became a RV-4 has more to do with luck than anything else. I had the fortune to find a kit that has been around for a while, the empennage is built but that is about it. I never thought that I would be able to build an airplane like this but with the price of this kit it suddenly became reality.
At the moment I am inventorying the kit and cleaning the parts. Most of the stuff looks to be ok, some are missing and others are a little dented but no major problems so far, except for maybe a dent in one of the spars at the tip, should not be too hard to fix.
Here where I live (Sweden) one needs a ?Permission to build? before one can start, so I am working on that part at the moment. The great thing with homebuilding in Sweden is that all the inspections, paperwork and so on are handled by EAA, so one does not have to deal at all with ?Transportstyrelsen?, our FAA.
I guess that the actual building will not start until the spring, need to get the shop in order, buy the tools and get the paperwork in order first. Then it is building time.
One strange thing is that the original owner, who sadly is not around anymore, has primed the ribs that go inside the tank, so I guess I will be ordering new tank ribs. I don?t know if priming the parts inside the tanks are a bad id?e but I have not heard anyone else that has done that. Anyone that has anything to say about that?
/Fredrik