Van's RV-9
Mine will be the RV-9a trigear model.
Posted on 11/22/2002 12:01:25 PM PST by honway
BRAGGS -- A Pryor man was killed Monday afternoon when a small experimental aircraft he was flying hit a power line and crashed at Camp Gruber.
Oklahoma National Guard Staff Sgt. Robert Louis Harding, 45, was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. Monday at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, where he had been transported following the 12:30 p.m. crash.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Gary Rogers said Harding's homemade aircraft had been airborne for about one-half mile before clipping the power line and crashing upside down on Central Europe Road.
Col. Charles Frasier, chief of staff of the Oklahoma National Guard, which oversees operations at Camp Gruber, said the Federal Aviation Administration would begin investigating the crash Tuesday morning. Camp Gruber is an Oklahoma National Guard training site.
Harding worked at the Whitaker Education Training Center in Pryor. An employee of Mid-America Aviation in Pryor said Harding was an excellent pilot with more than 20 years flying experience and had at least 100 hours flying time in the light single-engine plane.
The employee, who asked to not be identified, said Harding's plane, while considered experimental, was FAA certified. "My kids have flown with (Harding), a lot of people around here have. I've flown that plane. There was nothing wrong with it," the employee said, adding that he hadn't seen Harding depart Pryor earlier in the day.
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Van's RV-9
Mine will be the RV-9a trigear model.
I'm a low time pilot (just started) and have worked with metal and not much composite. The RV is much less complex.
I'll build time in the RV and eventually move up to the Velocity.
The Velocity is a nice 4 place family truckster. :-)
It's more affordable than you think! How's 24K (excluding engine) for the kit sound? That's the quick-build version (cuts build time in half). Full kit is only around 15K.
Very reasonable. Figure 45-68K ready to fly...you can spread that out over years!
I saw one of those MiniMax planes fly at an EAA airshow. I was very impressed. Only drawback is one seat...more fun to fly with friends. :-)
I was talking to a guy awhile back who was building an amphib and his plan was to put in an engine that used standard gasoline. Is that rare in the home-built world?
I am by no means an expert in the homebuilt world. My experience is helping to build a Thorpe T-18 in the 70's and helping rebuild a wrecked Super Cub.
You can get engines certificated for car gas. Since this is my first plane I will be following the directions to a "T".
Like you, if I win the lottery and can get a fleet of planes to experiment on, I may start thinking outside the box. :-)
Any configuration, fixed wing, parasal, hang glider trike, even helicopter if it meets these 4 criteria is an "ultralight".
Most "ultralights" are way over the weight limit, and the FAA seldom enforces it. Unless you injure someone else or damage other property, the FAA typically doesn't want to know or get involved. If there is an "ultralight" accident and no one dies or no other property damaged, they won't even come out to investigate.
The Oklahoma National Guard confirmed Friday that the aerial photos were indeed taken above Camp Gruber in the fall of 1994 and said the classified project involved weapons sensors and was overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (view of area on Central Europe Road discussed in Washington Post article)
Velocitys are pretty nifty also, although not as good in short field. Every man, and woman, needs a minimum of two airplanes.
I'm going to be looking for a Cessna 180 rebuild project next fall. I need the Queen Family Truxter for the wife and dog, once that is done, then I'll move on to the RV-8.
But there was more than explosives in the portfolios of the CIA agents who surrounded Riconosciuto like moths around a candle. Both Robert Booth Nichols, the shady head of Meridian Arms Corporation (with both CIA and organized crime conections), and Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the manager of the Cabazon reservation, were involved in bio-warfare work-the first in trying to sell bio-warfare products to the army through Wackenhut, the second in giving tribal permission for research to take place at Cabazon. According to Riconosciuto, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)b was in charge of the classified contracts for biological warfare research. Riconosciuto would later testify under oath that Stormont Laboratories ( http://www.stormont-labs.com/ ) was involved in the DARPA-Wackenhut-Cabazon project. Jonathan Littman, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle would relate: "Cabazons and Wackenhut appeared to be acting as middlemen between the Pentagon's DARPA and Stormont Laboratories, a small facility in Woodland near Sacramento
Pentagon database plan hits snag on Hill
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At least the office implementing Total Information Awareness has a sense of humor. This is their new logo. Interestingly they included the All Seeing Eye.
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