---------------------------------------------------------- Rocket-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Tue 07/25/06: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:42 PM - Re: RV10-List: OSH Update 7/23/06 (JOHN STARN) 2. 05:14 PM - Fw: RV-10 Versus Cirrus (Morocketman@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:42:23 PM PST US From: "JOHN STARN" Subject: Rocket-List: Re: RV10-List: OSH Update 7/23/06 --> Rocket-List message posted by: "JOHN STARN" > Announcement is that the RV-8 fuselage is now completely prepunched along > with an update to the plans. > Bob YGBSM, as my Wild Weasel partner would say. Below is a direct reprint copy from the Van's site. Wonder how many people at OSH are looking, asking question about the "new" -8 prepunched format compared to those drooling over the prototype RV-12. Prepunched RV-4...maybe...but that would screw up all the HRII builder sales Van's does. Where are photos of the RV-12 ? ? Somebody has to have taken some. Are they taking "escrow" orders for the RV-12 yet ? ? Can you get/fax/e-mail me an RV-12 order form ? ? Now that would be a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. KABONG HRII waiting for the RV-12. "In RV-7/8/9/10 kits, rivet and bolt holes are pre-punched into all the parts. It is hard to overstate just how much labor and difficulty matched-hole pre-punching saves. All part alignments, fastener spacings and measurements are set at the factory. When the builder aligns the holes, the parts must be in the correct position. An RV builder is assembling an airplane, not building one from scratch." ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 05:14:36 PM PST US From: Morocketman@aol.com Subject: Rocket-List: Fwd: RV-10 Versus Cirrus Return-path: Full-name: Morocketman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1153871029" -------------------------------1153871029 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey listers, did you catch the line after Tom Olsen's name...............RV-10 "Flying".........? He has absolutely made the point! The -10 is, as he says, "a poor man's Cirrus." And it will never compete with a certified airplane on a level pricing field. That is what we all love about EXPERIMENTAL AIRPLANES. Tom was criticized for mentioning some anatomical items from the lower extremes, so I won't mention what I was "laughing off" when I read the current issues of magazines espousing the Mooney Acclaim to be the fastest piston powered single-engined airplane in the world. They claimed 236 knots on one trip at flight level 250. That was at 94% power and 22 gph. And bless you Gretchen, (Jahn) with only two people on board. My Harmon Rocket II with 30 less horsepower will blow the doors off the Acclaim. It will fly it at 206 knots at 75% power at 12.8 gph, but I fly it at 65% power burning only 9.3gph and 186 knots at 10,000 feet MSL. Do you want a piece of that? The very best part is that I only invested one fifth of the $495,000 price of the Mooney. (Yes! It is glass cockpit, with traffic alert, coupled autopilot, and IFR redundancy.) Having flown both the RV-10, and an SR-20, I would love to express my opinion of which is a much better handling airplane, but I have too many friends in Duluth. Want to worry about something? Advocate to your Congressman not to eliminate Experiment Aviation from our vocabulary. I just love it! Signed, "Cheap... Pilot" Les Featherston Harmon Rocket II "Airgasm" has 278 hrs and is not the fastest P-P-S in the world. And please DO NOT ARCHIVE -------------------------------1153871029 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hey listers, did you catch the line after Tom Olsen's name............. ..RV-10 "Flying".........?    He has absolutely made the poin t!  The -10 is, as he says, "a poor man's Cirrus."   And it w ill never compete with a certified airplane on a level pricing field.  That is what we all love about EXPERIMENTAL AIRPLANES. 
 
Tom was criticized for mentioning some anatomical items from the lower extremes, so I won't mention what I was "laughing off" when I read the curre nt issues of magazines espousing the Mooney Acclaim to be the fastest piston powered single-engined airplane in the world.  They claimed 236 knots on one trip at flight level 250.  That was at 94% power and 22 gph .  And bless you Gretchen, (Jahn) with only two people on board. 
 
My Harmon Rocket II with 30 less horsepower will blow the doors off the Acclaim.  It will fly it at 206 knots at 75% power at 12.8 g ph, but I fly it at 65% power burning only 9.3gph and 186 knots at 10,000 feet MSL.  Do you want a piece of that?  The very best par t is that I only invested one fifth of the $495,000 price of the Mooney.&nbs p; (Yes! It is glass cockpit, with traffic alert,  coupled autopilot, a nd IFR redundancy.)
 
Having flown both the RV-10, and an SR-20, I would love to express my o pinion of which is a much better handling airplane, but I have too many frie nds in Duluth.
 
Want to worry about something?  Advocate to your Congressman not t o eliminate Experiment Aviation from our vocabulary.
 
I just love it!  Signed, "Cheap... Pilot"
Les Featherston   Harmon Rocket II "Airgasm" has 278 hrs and is not the fastest P-P-S in the world.
 
And please DO NOT ARCHIVE
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