Which airplane for teenagers to build????

Don't the rivet holes get a little oversized?

Jim




"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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Sounds like Opportunity Skyways...EAA Chapter 26 meets in their shop at
Boeing
Field. However, I don't think they build flying airplanes anymore. They
take a
school year to assemble a Zenair or RANS, then it gets disassembled and
the next
year's class does it again.

Ron Wanttaja

On Tue, 1 May 2007 22:40:41 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
...

Sounds like Opportunity Skyways...EAA Chapter 26 meets in their shop at
Boeing
Field. However, I don't think they build flying airplanes anymore. They
take a
school year to assemble a Zenair or RANS, then it gets disassembled and
the next
year's class does it again.

Don't the rivet holes get a little oversized?

Probably. I suspect they buy replacements on occasion. They might even get
aluminum from Boeing Surplus for skins, or even have the kids build parts using
the old ones as patterns. They've got ~2 Zenith CH601-class and one CH-701, and
one RANS S-7 class. One of the 601s is promotional and not disassembled (it's
painted up like the Blue Angels, with "1/2" on the tail).

IIRC, the *first* airplane built by Opportunity Skyways did make one flight,
with our Chapter's Tech Counselor at the controls.

Ron Wanttaja