Tim Olson
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 2881
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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: Crazy Nomination thing - Don't forget the others - esp. Rand |
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You guys, I really appreciate your compliments. But, it gets
me a bit squeamish because I don't want to let you all forget
where this all started.
When I was building, I *felt* like I was a latecomer and behind
the curve. There were many people (169 to be exact) in front of
me with kits. Somehow I ended up as probably the 24th customer
to fly though. I had many questions, and zero experience. I
didn't get a demo flight until I was well into my wings, so I
was building without hardly even any cool stories from people
had flown them. You just had to hope it was going to be
everything you intended. Along the way, I met Randy, who ended
up being the 2nd one that we know of that flew his own RV-10.
He's the one to who we really owe the most for his pioneering.
He *allowed* me to post his pictures, which became the base
for the resource that is now my site. He spent countless
hours on the phone with me and many others, giving tips to
get through the snags. That's what my site originally
was founded on...tips from him and others who were ahead
of me....things I learned along the way. There are others
like Anh Vu who provided lots of insight to me before
flight, and then I got to pay them back a bit after I
sped up my build and got ahead. Vic Syracuse, who was
very helpful many times throughout the 2nd half of the
build preocess for me. Bob Condrey...he was there
for lots of people, and still is...same with Rick Sked.
I thought for sure many/most of the 169 people who have
kits before me would be flying before me too, but it just
didn't work out that way...mainly because they're slackers.
(just kidding!)
Anyway, don't forget that those people and many more are really
where it all began, way back on the Yahoo group of old. We've
grown to a number of more than 4X the kits since I started
building, and there have been countless examples of very
ingenious ideas and people who've stepped forth on the list to
share their knowledge and experiences. They all play a
part in our success. If you've ever read something on
this list and pondered it, you not only are a part of
the community, but you're gaining resources from it. It's
what improves our quality of build experience, for many of
us.
At present, I am head-over-heels in love with the plane that I
built, and I do far too little tinkering with it, as I enjoy
flying it too much. I've turned over 200 hours on the plane
with nothing but minor squaks. My family has gotten used to
flying places, and my wife likes it almost as much as I do
now....this weekend SHE was the one who didn't want to quit
flying, so we headed out for another leg.
I do intend to keep the info coming as time permits.
It's been tougher lately, for some reason. If people
have info to submit to the tips area, I just ask one
thing....please help with the content as much as possible.
I've got some tips from people that have great 1,2,3, step
by steps, and those are easy to just slap on the site with
a photo. The ones that are hard are the "here's something
you should share" ones that I have to take the time to
write up. I don't mind doing it, but it does take more
dedicated time to get that stuff out.
So anyway, I appreciate everyone's participation in the
community as a whole, and I don't think I deserve any
more recognition than any of the other people who do their
best to pass on what they've learned. There are some
out there who build their entire plane without sharing
any info on a forum. That's fine, but really I think it's
nice to give back how and when you can.
Thanks again, and I'd like to vote myself down a notch,
and maybe give a better nomination of Randy DeBauw. Without
him I wouldn't have had it so good.
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
do not archive
James K Hovis wrote:
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John,
Great post and well reasoned approach, keeps the OBAM principle
pretty much as is while eliminating a part of the "hired gun" problem.
As a wanna-be builder (hopefully will be turning that into builder
status soon), I support TIm Olson's nomination. He's probably done
more to inspire future RV-10 builders than any single person by doing
a simple, sometimes daunting task of collecting and diseminating
relavent infromation about building his and other great RV-10's.
Without his webpages (and those of others he links to), I think my
preparatory work and insiration would be rather lacking.
Kevin Hovis
builder soon!!
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