Ron's RV7 Aircraft Factory

Welcome to my personal blog. This site was created as an informal description of my building progress of a Van's RV7 aircraft. A place where family/friends/builders can follow along. It is not intended to be a detailed description of every step in the building process as that would be too time consuming. There are plenty of sites out there that do a great job with that, that is not my value add with this site. In addition, I am learning this as I go, no sense in having the "blind lead the blind." ;) My intention is for this to be more of a philisophical/motivational/inspirational account of the emotional ups and downs of the build process. I hope this does give you an idea, through my eyes, of what its like to take this journey. A note to other builders, I am by no means an expert so do not put your safety at risk by attempting anything you see on this site until you have done your own research, or send me an email so we can discuss it. Any deviations from the plans are not approved, nor endorsed by Van's Aircraft or myself. (Photo used with permission of Chris Sands, who is the proud builder. Photograph by Curt Gearhart. Photo editing by Ron Duren.)

Saturday, December 31, 2011

A New Year HOBBS 1025.0 hrs


Even with all the depressing crap that has been going on in the world with the economy, 2011 was a pretty darn good year for me. As you know I made a lot of progress on the project and feel like 2012 is going to be even better as I close in on completing this project. Hopefully your year was also a good one. Happy holidays and here's to looking forward to another great year. We are truly fortunate. My friends Scott and Gary loaded up their wives and planes and headed to Las Vegas for the weekend...always inspiring to me to finish....oh, how I cant wait for the day I can take flight with them on their RV adventures. In honor of their flight to Vegas...I included a photo of ol' sin city...a place I once called home.

On a seperate note, happy birthday to my deal ol' Dad! Yep, a new years eve baby...I wont mention his age or he'd probably kill me...happy birthday just the same pop!

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