If you missed the Gala on Sunday afternoon. Peggy Frisbie put together a fabulous feast to celebrate Richards completion of his RV-10, an epic 20 year journey that has him grinning ear to ear as he has every right to!
(Ed note: You are never complete building your airplane, you just stop working on it!)
Yes Richard has a little bit more to do however he has flown of the mandatory flight time and the world awaits destinations of Richards choice!
The first order of business before the event was EAA 650 lead by chapter president John Spain, and a dozen or so cleaning both inside and out to the chapter meeting house, including a pressure washing the outside of the building.
Sunday afternoon there were vans shuttling folks back and forth to Richards hangar for an open house to look over his airplane. Many had seen or participated in the construction, bucked rivets, sewn upholstery, handed tools or provided that "third hand" etc, over the years. But had never met the finished project. I got to fly as chaperon on the early flights where we started to examine the flight envelop of the airplane, it’s fast!
Just before we dug into the sumptuous BBQ. Peggy and Richard spoke emotionally about how this has been a very long journey and were grateful for the help and support over the many years by friends and family that allowed them to persevere to project completion.
In addition to Richards RV-10 in the Hangar. Mark Rinehart has his RV-7 in the same hangar and it too received attention from the visitors. And not to be outdone a recent addition to that hangar is the Glassair by Russ Goodwine that will not be flying until 2026 but it looks like all the pieces are there. 80% done and only 40% to go, right Russ?
Tim Sparks
EAA Shuttle Van Driver and part time scribe…..
N8510R BUILD FACTS
DATE STARTED 4/4/2004
DATE COMPLETED 9/17/2023
VOLUNTEER WORKER HOURS 658
TOTAL PROJECT HOURS 6034
VOLUNTEER WORKERS
ABEL WOODSBIE
BARRATT PATTON
BOB JACOBS
BRYAN KOHUT
CAROL SHAPIRO
DAVID HUFF
DEAN WEBSTER
ELLEN WOODSBIE
KELSEY FRISBIE
GARY FENDER
JIM FRISBIE
JERRY HARKIN
JIM LESEURE
JOE MURPHY
JOHN HAYES
JOHN SEWARD
JOHN SPAIN
KAREN HUNNICUTT
PAUL MEYERS
RACHEL HARKIN
RICKY MULVILLE
RILEY HALLORAN
ROBERT MEYA
ROSALEE WHITE
RON SISCOE
RUSS GOODWINE
SHAWN PETERSON
STEVE CLARK
STEVE JOHNSON
TIM PORTER
TIM SPARKS
VANS RV-10 SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE SINGLE ENGINE TRACTOR PROP
MATERIAL ALUMINUM, STEEL, FIBERGLASS
ENGINE LYCOMING IO-540, 260H.P.
PROPELLOR HARTZELL AL 2 BLADE CONSTANT SPEED
WINGSPAN 31’ 9”
LENGTH 24’
HEIGHT 8’ 11”
WEIGHT 1650 lbs (EMPTY)
2700 lbs (MAX)
FUEL CAPACITY 72 gallons
RANGE 1000+ miles
MAX SPEED 210 mph
CRUISE SPEED 175 mph
STALL SPEED 72 mph (NO FLAPS)
60 mph (FULL FLAPS)
