Saturday I made the 10 min drive from my house out to Front Range Airport (FTG) for an annual car show and aircraft display. I have been to this for the last three years and it is mostly a small affair and more about the cars than the airplanes. This year though, they had quite a few more cars on display, someone said 500? Not sure about that, but noticeably bigger. They also had some flying displays this year, some light aerobatics by a Sukhoi and flyby's. Nothing too elaborate, but hey, it was free and a good way to get out of the shop for an hour or two.
As I was looking at the airplanes on display...the usual stuff...Remos, Pipers, Glastars, Carbon Cubs, Cessnas, Maule's, a couple warbirds, etc., I came across a really nice looking RV parked on the ramp. It happened to be the only RV out there which was rather surprising, and low and behold it was an RV7...and upon closer inspection, very nicely done construction. I also really liked the paint job, as you can see from the pics, it looks pretty snazzy. I snapped several pics on my iPhone and then the owner, Ron Davis, came up and we ended up talking RV's for about 30 minutes. Funny how RV owners and builders can talk for hours about their planes! ;) Nice guy, flies for United, and absolutely loves his RV. He also got his paint job done locally...so I was quizzing him about the details of that. Always nice to see planes out flying and talk to the owners about building...inspiration to keep chuggin' along!
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