bmeyette
Joined: 14 Mar 2007
Posts: 72
Location: Cornish, NH
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 Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: WAS Eaa banter NOW OSH interesting things |
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I attended a seminar on runway homes, which turned out to be a lot about self-directed IRAs, which I’d only recently heard about and which seem like a great idea. Not many people know about them, but you can roll your past (not current) IRAs & 401Ks into a self-directed IRA that you can then use to buy real estate, a business, etc, as long as it’s not to directly benefit you or your direct relatives (so you can’t use it to fund your plane). Seems like a good idea. Google “self-directed IRA” to get tons of info from the ‘net.
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Having attended about every possible building seminar in the past, I had hoped to re-attend Kent White’s excellent series of seminars on metal forming, but he wasn’t doing them this year. Also, his booth in the commercial hangar went unmanned, so I guess something came up for him & he couldn’t make it. See http://www.tinmantech.com/
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I also re-attended Joe Norris’ excellent W&B seminar, as well as Joe Gauthier’s most excellent seminars on final inspection and flight testing. If you haven’t attended them, I highly recommend them, as well as a Canadian man’s (sorry – don’t recall his name) excellent and necessary seminar on fuel flow testing.
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I also attended a paint design seminar, which was quite useful. See http://schemedesigners.com/ for more info.
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Saw lots of cool LSAs & ultralights, including a very cool one-off custom design http://www.culverprops.com/back-yard-flyer.php
Mostly welded construction; quite unique
If I had it to do over again, I’d get something like this first, then I’d have something to fly while I build. I REALLY miss flying, and find myself constantly scheming on how to get an ultralight to fly while I spend at least another year building.
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I didn’t spend much time in the RV area, as I’ve already closely examined and photographed about every RV there in past years. I guess I’m getting to the construction stage where I’ve already bought about everything I need and have done, committed to, or already know what I need to do on all the remaining steps.
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I saw a cool demo of the Vertical Power product to control all your wiring in one box. I’m already past that stage, but it looked promising. Not cheap, but looks like a good product. The owner, Marc Ausman, also helped support the RV BBQ. See http://www.verticalpower.com/
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Some very cool jets, but, as my wife said to me when I commented on an especially cool jet, “when did you ever see a jet that you DIDN’T think was cool?” If I won the lottery, I’d buy an L-39 and spend 8 hours a day every day training in it.
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I saw a couple Questair Venture planes, a defunct kit, which were cool – picture a stubby, bulbous RV with a Conti 550 engine and retractable gear that goes 240 knots.
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The $10K Bruce King BK1 was pretty cool, too; also kind of a short, bulbous cross between a Hummelbird and an RV
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brian
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http://brian76.mystarband.net/RV-7Ahome.htm
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Brian Meyette, Cornish, NH
RV-7A QB tipup, supercharged Subaru STi engine, MT CS prop, all glass day/night/IFR panel, being built with solar and wind power
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