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How much $$$ Lumber to build a Metal Airplane? Lesser-known Costs – Build VLOG #11

November 18, 2020
Steve Thorne
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The project is nearing completion!

In this “Airplane Build Vlog” episode of Flight Chops, we meet with the team to review our costs to date, and plan the final stages of the project!

Builder Roundtable

Premiere at 8:30pm Central on Dec 2, 2020

Host/Moderator: Ryan – SuperAero
https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperAero
https://www.instagram.com/superaeroflight/
https://twitter.com/superaeroflight
https://www.facebook.com/SuperAeroFlight

Other Builder’s Social Media Links:

Build Fly Go
https://www.youtube.com/buildflygo
https://www.instagram.com/buildflygo
https://www.facebook.com/buildflygo

Plane Lady
https://www.planelady.com
https://www.youtube.com/planelady
https://www.instagram.com/plane.lady
https://www.facebook.com/planelady

Jason Ellis
http://rv10.info
https://www.youtube.com/JasonEllisPalamedes
https://twitter.com/JasonEllis72

The builders featured in this one:

Jon

Jon built an RV-8 in his basement – and had to remove a wall to get it out 🙂
And also flies a Meridian and makes videos about both!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9CTZjYXYBMCrKLCXdOaMqQ

Martin Filiatrault: https://youtu.be/Mtj79ulEdEY

  • Pilot since 1981; EAA lifetime member since 1995; member of EAA Chapters 113 and 194
  • Inception of RV-8 build/ pre-plans purchased in 2002
  • Empennage work begun in May 2015
  • Quickbuild kits arrived in February 2017
  • Fully complete empennage to hangar October 2019
  • Currently working on completing canopy/windscreen and wingtips
  • Painting to be completed spring 2021
  • Expected completion and first flight summer 2021

Here are the links to some of the major component partners we are proud to be working with on the RV-14:

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/
https://www.steinair.com/
https://www.lycoming.com/engines/thunderbolt
https://hartzellprop.com/
https://hartzell.aero/
https://aeroleds.com/
http://www.classicaero.com/

#KitPlane #homebuilt

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