Ron's RV7 Aircraft Factory


Welcome to my personal blog. This site was created as an informal description of my build progress in the construction of a Van's RV7 aircraft. A place where family/friends/builders/curiosity seekers can follow along. It is not intended to be a detailed description of every step in the building process as that would be much too time consuming. There are plenty of sites that do a great job in that arena, that is not my intention with this site. My intention is for this to be a philisophical/motivational/inspirational account of the emotional ups and downs of the life changing journey...and it will change your life. I hope this will give you an idea, through my eyes, of what its like to make this transformation. A note to other builders, I am not 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. Thanks for visiting.



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Sheryl Getting Her Acro On!


Although this isn't RV related, I just had to share this video in the interest of good ol' aviation fun and inspiration. Last weekend, good friend Steve Bergevin who owns a Giles 202 and flies opposing solo for the Renegades formation team, took Sheryl for her first real acro flight. As you can see in the video, she pretty much smiled from start to finish and Steve said she flew quite well when given the stick. 


The G-meter showed +8/-4 at the end of the flight...not too bad for your first acro flight eh?! Shoot, that is more than I did when I flew with Steve. Not only did she not feel queasy, she said she wanted to keep going...definitely one tough lady I am lucky enough to spend time with.

The two things that stood out from our post-flight conversation were "addictive" and "I want to learn how to do that"! How many acro flying careers have started with those words...? Welcome to the "addiction" honey.


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