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Steves Web Site
Hello, The following is a photo-log of my Velocity-SE project begun in August 2016. My objectives are twofold: 1) Create a record where interested folks / family can check my progress. 2) For current and future builders, provide, yet another, reference to see how I choose to do certain building tasks and how/where I positioned the various components. It's always helpful to get another view of things. This is my second “home / armature” built project. My first aircraft was an RV-6 (N601SC) that was mostly built in a basement in Dayton, Ohio. Getting out out of the basement is a story for another time, but the plane flew December 30th , 2003; to celebrate the Centennial of Flight, of course. Shortly after completing the plane, I married Betsy and Amelia followed soon after. The three-seat family and the two-seat airplane didn't quite balance, so the plane was sold in 2007 after accumulating about 190 hours. The current owner is in Texas and has rolled the Hobbs-meter past 1,000 trouble-free hours and I'm really proud of that and happy for the owner. In 2016, the “fam” visited Oshkosh and, at the time, I was considering building another RV. A RV-10 of course, but prices for the big 6 cylinder motor and the overall “healthy” investment required to finish a -10 left me looking at other options. Betsy just so happened to comment on the a line of Velocities – literally as we were about to head home and that got me thinking. I've always admired the design, but being a “RV” guy, I never gave them too much though. Needles to say, things change and I began scouring Barnstormers and Trade-A-Plane for Velo project. As it just so happened; an ad popped up in TAP for a SE-RG in Kingsport, TN. It was a 2005 Quick-build, but very little work had actually been completed as the original owner passed away in 2006. It was the quintessential Barn-Find. The original owner's family was happy to get rid of it, I was happy to take-on a new project. More soon....
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