I am sure a lot of us will be hanging around the -15 a lot. Maybe introduce ourselves and start some talk about a shindig for 2027 when I hope some of us can fly the new birds out there…….?
 
What about Tuesday night at the homebuilt camping pavilion? Something informal but 15-centric?
 
Just so you know, Van’s banquet is usually Tuesday night if you plan on attending that (but I haven’t seen an official announcement avbout it this year yet…)
 
Beer exchange at the pavilion Sunday evening, RV Social Monday evening, Vans dinner Tuesday evening. Wednesday might be your best bet.
 
RV8-969PH said:
I am sure a lot of us will be hanging around the -15 a lot. Maybe introduce ourselves and start some talk about a shindig for 2027 when I hope some of us can fly the new birds out there…….?
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Since the fuselage and finishing kits aren't even available to order yet and the current lead time for an IO390 is 18 months, I think this is more than a little optimistic...unless you meant 2037 :)
 
Desert Rat said:
Since the fuselage and finishing kits aren't even available to order yet and the current lead time for an IO390 is 18 months, I think this is more than a little optimistic...unless you meant 2037 :)
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I don't know... Our 390 was ordered concurrently with the wing kit and is scheduled to ship at the end of this October. Next year might be something of a stretch to fly it in, but doesn't mean we're not going to try.
 
543TB said:
I don't know... Our 390 was ordered concurrently with the wing kit and is scheduled to ship at the end of this October. Next year might be something of a stretch to fly it in, but doesn't mean we're not going to try.
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Best of luck to you, but even if you get that stuff in October, What's the ETA on the fuselage and finishing kit? I just looked and Vans doesn't even have pricing on those kits yet, let alone an estimated lead time.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, it just doesn't seem like a realistic timeline to me.

I dunno man, I guess I'll just say good luck and godspeed.
 
As a non-builder I have a vested interest in seeing you all succeed in building a faster cruising, higher payload, better performing backcountry aircraft.

The sooner the RV-15 flys and at least a few folks become disenchanted with backcountry flying the sooner some nice specimens will enter the used market for folks like myself.

In the interim, I'm definitely down with drinking beer at Oshkosh to do some HBC pavilion chair flying on the subject(y)
 
DanH said:
Beer exchange at the pavilion Sunday evening, RV Social Monday evening, Vans dinner Tuesday evening. Wednesday might be your best bet.
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Or the Young Eagles banquet on Tuesday and the Steinair dinner on Wed or Thurs (not yet announced). The list grows longer every day.
 
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