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This little site will document the progress on the building and flying of a Van’s RV-8 experimental aircraft. You will find images, tips, tricks and techniques that I have learned and from others on the net.

HB-YMM Experimental Homebuilt Van's Aircraft RV-8

HB-YMM Experimental Homebuilt Van’s Aircraft RV-8

04 Feb 2006 Glareshield Edging

Got this from Kevin Horton, originally posted by RV-6 builder Mark Nielsen: ============================== For my glareshield, I mounted a piece of 3/8" soft aluminum tubing (same as fuel line) along the aft edge of the glareshield. I cut...

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02 Feb 2006 Visit to Mistral Engines

Yesterday, Feb 1 2006, I spent the afternoon at Mistral Engines in Geneva. Mistral is developing a family of rotary aviation engines for the certified and experimental markets. They have completed development on the 2-rotor normally...

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04 Jan 2006 Flap fairings

These are just some pictures of my flap fairings. There have been some questions about them, and I realized I didn't have any photos of them at all. I didn't have too much trouble putting them...

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29 Dec 2005 Air Compressor

I've had a few people ask me about my air compressor, so here are a couple of pictures and some comments. I bought the compressor from a guy in Germany via E-bay. The manufacturer of the...

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24 Dec 2005 Bolt engineering

A great article by Steven Miller, chopped out of the airsoob Yahoo list. Excellent reading! I have to chime in after reading Marvin's post. He seems to have put a lot of thought into his theory...

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22 Nov 2005 Crooks and scammers

Anytime you get an E-mail that says to click a link, and re-confirm data, or any other junk like that, just delete it. You can get these from banks, credit card companies, the government, lotteries, etc. None are legitimate, and...

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