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uh-1driver(at)earthlink.n
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: New to list

Hello,



Just purchased a FEW Mustang kit (no. 33) from another individual and moved it to the Los Angeles area.  Hoping to hear from other FEW builders that are willing to share their techniques for building.  Any builders on the Southern California area?

Darren Henley

uh-1driver(at)earthlink.net

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PolymerDesign(at)aol.com
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: New to list

Fill us in. Who did you buy your project from? Ken Gottschall

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melvinke(at)direcway.com
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: New to list

Congratulations! You are not too far from a great source of help at Mustang

headquarters, and Ed Hullinger, at Santa Paula. We have two Mustangs here in

Hillsboro, Oregon, both at the firewall-forward stage. From whom did you get

your kit?

Kenneth Melvin

N51KX



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LRE2(at)aol.com
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: New to list

Hello Darren,

           Welcome to the squadron,  How far along is your project?  There is 

a group us us die hards that have learned many things in the construction of 

this project.  Bob Oliver in St Lui Obispo is flying.  Up here in Oregon, 

there are two of us , 90% finished, 90% to go.  

        Let us know if we can help     

                                                                              

        Larry Eidemiller

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c.hoyle(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: New to list

Hi Darren,



Good to have you join us and good luck on your new project. If I can be of

help or for that matter, any of us, you will find that we will all do what

we can to encourage and support you. I live in Colorado and only have

firewall forward to finish.



Cliff Hoyle

N2051P 

 

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uh-1driver(at)earthlink.n
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: New to list

To all those that replied so quickly, thank you.  I shall try to answer

your questions at this post.



I bought the kit from Mark Alexander of Dayton, Ohio.  I think it is

fitting that I purchased my airplane at the same place where the Wright

Brothers invented the bicycle.  It is (I believe) from the second

production group from FEW.  It is a single seat D version but I believe

that it has the current production wing.  I hope to add a jump seat to it

but it will only fit someone much smaller than myself.  The kit was

produced in 1993 and had been dragged around through 2 moves before Mr.

Alexander decided to give up the project.



He had assembled the fuselage with most bulkheads installed.  He has closed

the horizontal stabilizer.  The rudder and elevators have the ribs and

spars installed but not closed.  The wing is completely unbuilt.  The

fiberglass work is actually not that bad but the metal work is pretty poor.

I have removed all the metal work, (that I can get access to), nut plates

mostly, and have begun to re-fabricate them.  I receive information and

assistance from one of the chapter members who is also a sheet metal worker

at an aircraft manufacturing plant (he is building his own Symphony).  I

guess that it doesn't better than that.



I am working on the fuselage at the Compton Airport at the EAA Chapter 96

hangar.  There are closer chapters, but this one maintains shop space for

it's members to build their projects.  I am building the wing at a friends

workshop which is much closer to where I work and live.  I have the wing

table complete and have begun to glue the spar cap to the main spar shear

web.  Next week I will pull it out and install the reinforcing laminants.  



I have been a little discouraged that the project has been going backwards

as I undo elements of the kit but I believe that I have turned the corner

and begun to move forward again.  It is getting pretty interesting.  It is

also very intimidating with respect to the size of this project.



A wise man once said, "How do you eat an elephant?"



"One bite at a time!"

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 Date: 3/15/2006 2:50:43 PM

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 Fill us in.  Who did you buy your project from?   Ken Gottschall

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