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Oliver Arend wrote:

Thanks for the input, guys, the RV-9 preview plans and the Tony
Bingelis book arrived in the mail recently and I've got lots of
"looking at" (and drooling over, sometimes) to do.

For a first plane, I might opt for a small, inexpensive one-seater
kit, though. We'll see.

Oliver

Advice: If you are going to go to the effort of building a plane, build
one that fulfills your desired mission. You cannot take a passenger
along in a single-seater.

It is really hard to beat Van's planes and kits. He has improved
everything he has produced in the last 30 years.



If you wanna build, build.

If you wanna fly, buy.




The numbers of flying kitplanes in the 'for sale'-departement are just
enormous, some of them are even cheaper than the components.

Can't really comprehend why somebody puts 10 years of work, 80 kUS$, a
broken marriage in a kitplane, then flies it for about 100 hours and
goes on to sell it for 50 kUS$... in order to buy a new kit.

I bought mine: metal, low-wing, O-200 2-seater. I kinda like it :-)

Tom -wants to fly- De Moor