---------------------------------------------------------- RV3-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 03/05/03: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 04:53 AM - Re: RV3-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 03/04/03 (Linzel Gray Civ 43CES/CECP) 2. 06:55 AM - Re: Re: RV3-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 03/04/03 (Jim Oke) 3. 02:11 PM - Re: RV8 canopy slider parts for RV3 (Rick Fogerson) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 04:53:57 AM PST US Subject: RV3-List: RE: RV3-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 03/04/03 From: "Linzel Gray Civ 43CES/CECP" --> RV3-List message posted by: "Linzel Gray Civ 43CES/CECP" You might lose some of the F-16 like forward visibility with a slider. I build my RV3 with tip over for simplicity and to reduce construction time. The slider does look cooler though I think. Gray > --> RV3-List message posted by: "Ron Rosenberg" > > Listers: > > I'm flying an RV3 with a tip-over canopy. I'm not the builder. I'd like to > investigate what it will take to fabricate/install/purchase a slider. > Anyone have any info on the slider for the 3?? > > Ron Rosenberg, PA, MPH > Practice Management Resource Group > 325 Pine St., Sausalito, CA 94965 > Sausalito Office -(415)925-4334 > Chicago Office - (312) 543-5480 > www.medicalpmrg.com > > ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:55:38 AM PST US From: Jim Oke Subject: Re: RV3-List: RE: RV3-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 03/04/03 --> RV3-List message posted by: Jim Oke I sometimes refer to my RV-3 (slider canopy) as my "Very Poor Man's Mustang". Taxi in with your elbow over the canopy rail, clamber out with a parachute on your back, make tail chase motions with your hands. All very cool, all great fun (if a bit unrealistic...) Jim Oke RV-3 C-FIZM Winnipeg, MB do not archive ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linzel Gray Civ 43CES/CECP" Subject: RV3-List: RE: RV3-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 03/04/03 > --> RV3-List message posted by: "Linzel Gray Civ 43CES/CECP" > > You might lose some of the F-16 like forward visibility with a slider. I build my RV3 with tip over for simplicity and to reduce construction time. The slider does look cooler though I think. > > Gray > > > > --> RV3-List message posted by: "Ron Rosenberg" > > > > Listers: > > > > I'm flying an RV3 with a tip-over canopy. I'm not the builder. I'd like > to > > investigate what it will take to fabricate/install/purchase a slider. > > Anyone have any info on the slider for the 3?? > > > > Ron Rosenberg, PA, MPH > > Practice Management Resource Group > > 325 Pine St., Sausalito, CA 94965 > > Sausalito Office -(415)925-4334 > > Chicago Office - (312) 543-5480 > > www.medicalpmrg.com > > > > > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 02:11:41 PM PST US From: "Rick Fogerson" Subject: Re: RV3-List: RV8 canopy slider parts for RV3 --> RV3-List message posted by: "Rick Fogerson" Do Not Archive Thanks for responding. I have drawings of the RV3 slider, I was just trying to see if I could avoid making some parts to save time. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hodgson" Subject: RV3-List: RV8 canopy slider parts for RV3 > --> RV3-List message posted by: "Bob Hodgson" > > Ron, > I could scan the old slider drawings for you if that's any good - will come > out in multiple parts though. > > The bits are fairly basic compared to the newer canopies (e.g. no roller, > just nylon block slider 'foot'); don't know whether the 8 bits will improve > it though. > > Slider also needs a different roll-over structure. > > Bob (UK) > 3B Canoe (trying to get panel and top skins to fit . . . ) > > do not archive > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Time: 11:35:10 AM PST US > > From: "Rick Fogerson" > > Subject: RV3-List: RV8 canopy slider parts for RV3 > > > > --> RV3-List message posted by: "Rick Fogerson" > > > > Does anyone know if any of the parts Van's supplies in the slider kits for > planes > > such as the RV8, 9, etc. will work for the RV3. I'm thinking of things > like > > the: > > > > 1) rolling slider on the front of the canopy > > 2) windscreen/longeron attach bracket > > 3) canopy latch system > > > > thanks for any advise, > > Rick Fogerson, > > RV3 finish kit > > Boise, ID > > > > > > I'm flying an RV3 with a tip-over canopy. I'm not the builder. I'd like > to > > investigate what it will take to fabricate/install/purchase a slider. > > Anyone have any info on the slider for the 3?? > > > > Ron Rosenberg, PA, MPH > > Practice Management Resource Group > > 325 Pine St., Sausalito, CA 94965 > > Sausalito Office -(415)925-4334 > > Chicago Office - (312) 543-5480 > > www.medicalpmrg.com > >