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Old January 15th 08, 04:54 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.rotorcraft
Mortimer Schnerd, RN[_2_]
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wrote:
On Jan 15, 3:21 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
Eight months! Who has built anything that flies in 8 months?
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The late Tim Crawford built a complex homebuilt that flew for a long
time (a long EZ) in nine months. Its not the months or years, it's the
hours. Took me about 2300 hours to build mine
http://www.abri.com/sq2000
Some people do 2 hours per week and some 40.



North American Aviation took the P-51 from doodles on a napkin to lifting off
the tarmac in 117 days.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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