My Plane Will Be Done By Spring

[sj]

Borrowed from PBs FB…

 

[courierguy]

Having built 5 kitplanes, I was already chortling even before seeing this post, just the title cracked me up.

 

[acroeric]

Having built a few, I see no humor in this. There is no mention of WHICH spring

 

[Dan Gervae]

…many of us can relate

 

[Tadpole]

Having built a few, I see no humor in this. There is no mention of WHICH spring

My standard answer when someone asked when one of my projects would be done is October. I never specified the year, but only a few people caught that

 

[StuBob]

“In time for Oshkosh.”

 

[Scott A]

LOL

 

[55-PA18A]

Isn’t it a strange feeling after working so long to realize there is nothing else to be done? That it’s ready to fly.

Jim

 

[Geewhiz]

This hits too close to home to be funny.

 

[acroeric]

Isn’t it a strange feeling after working so long to realize there is nothing else to be done? That it’s ready to fly.

Jim

When we would finish a build everyone in my shop would be depressed for a week or two. You pour so much of your soul in to these things that is is hard sometimes when you reach the goal.

 

[courierguy]

I know one thing, until someone has taken even a relatively easy to build kitplane, much less a scratch build, to completion, they have no idea how much blood, sweat, and tears is involved. When I see accounts of someone wrecking a store bought plane, and then a few weeks later they're flying another store bought bird, having already moved on so to speak, it kinda drives me crazy. Good for them, but even IF I had full hull coverage on my RANS, once they handed the check over, my time to build has to come out of my rear end.