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Jim Missler, Kit Fox
    Mike Weisenberger This is my Baby Ace. I plan to power it with a 75hp Continental engine. I have not had time to work on it this past summer but I hope to get to it during this winter. Anybody wishing to look at it, please contact me. (419-668-5070)
Art West This Great Lakes project has an LOM 364 cubic inch 230 HP in line six cylinder inverted fuel injected fully aerobatic engine. Art has made inverted oil and fuel systems for it. All parts are hand made from 87 large sheets of engineering drawings from the 1929 factory plans. This project has very complicated wings with 3 degrees of sweep and 300 parts in each wing.
          Don Hostetler My RV-7 empennage kit arrived Thanksgiving week 2001. It laid dormant and unopened until January of 2002.
While attending the EAA Chapter 50's 3rd Annual Ski Plane Fly-In in early January 2002, I started pestering Dave Ross for advise on tools and methods of construction of the RV project as I had never worked with sheet metal before. He explained how his builder-assist workshop operated and suggested that, since he was not busy that evening, would I like to start then? Well, caught unaware and fresh out of excuses, I had little choice but to dig in. That evening in Dave's hangar, we inventoried the kit and Dave briefed me on the multitude of different specialty tools used in RV construction. Three months and over 300 hours later, the tail kit was complete and met Dave's high standards. Now confident, I headed home to build workbenches for the wing assemblies in my own shop. Had it not been for Dave Ross's support, I truly believe that empennage kit would have ended up at Galloway Brothers' scrap yard and I would now be president of a sail boat club instead of Chapter 50.
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