MILESTONE NO.1
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Welcome to the project web site
of
Diana's RV-9A
Revised August 13th, 2003--THE EMPENNAGE HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND ASSEMBLED.
THE FIBERGLASS TIPS WILL BE INSTALLED AT A LATER TIME
(this page is constantly under construction)

Diana flys the plane, Mike provides the airplane noise and Tango supervises.

About the airplane
A link to Van's Aircraft web pages for the RV-9A.  Browse around for a while, you might find something you like.  If you like what you see you can go to the factory and take the free demo flight that ends up costing most people over $30,000 by the time they're finished...

our Mission profile
To go where we've gone before...a story you may have already read but here's the link to it anyway.  We do like to travel in the little planes

Construction log

• First attempt at construction of the RV-9A empennage in October '02 was a false start
• Horizintal Stabilizer completed 27 Jun 03 
• Vertical Stabilizer completed 03 Jul 03, 12:30pm  > > > 
• Rudder completed 16 Jul 03, 10:30pm >>> 
• Elevators completed 13 Aug 03, 6:00pm     >>>  
• Those tricky trailing edges  >>> 
• Muligan Row
• Builder's Extras
• Back to the Wing page

 
mulligan (mul'li-gan)   n. 1. A common golf term for a bad tee shot that gets re-tee'd and re-shot with no penalty strokes.
n. 2. A Scotish golf term for 3 strokes on your score card.      v. 3. An airplane buildering term for "Get out yer credit card, buy another part, and do it right this time".

divot (di'vot)  n.  1. A common golf term for what isn't left of the turf when you hit more than the ball.  2. An airplane building term for how much more of a hole you have in the metal than when you started.  As in "dimpling in a hurry I made a *#$^&! divot".

*#$^&!  (*#$^&!)   adj.  1. (to be used in a sentence)

you can email us about the project at dianas-rv9a@teleport.com

Index page revision 12, 2003.08.13 mgm