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Title: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 06:29:02 PM
http://www.airdromeairplanes.com/airdrome/images/neiuport24_dsl.mov

http://www.airdromeairplanes.com/Nieuport24%7BFullscale%7D.html

 :rock
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: AAJagerX on January 08, 2009, 06:32:46 PM
Oh man...  How sweet is that?!?!?!   :O

If they make a tandem seat config.  I'd sell a kidney.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 06:39:46 PM
This one might be nice if it was full scale.

http://www.airdromeairplanes.com/airdrome/images/d-vii_dsl.mov

Same with this one.

http://www.airdromeairplanes.com/airdrome/images/e-iii_dsl.mov
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: uptown on January 08, 2009, 06:47:39 PM
(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/10-grand-bill.jpg)print this off, cut it out with scissors and glue the two sides together.Good Luck!  :rock
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Fulmar on January 08, 2009, 06:55:16 PM
Ugh, Quicktime movies!
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Golfer on January 08, 2009, 06:56:20 PM
I'd order one if they would put the second "d" in rudder on their order form.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Curval on January 08, 2009, 07:03:21 PM
Quick build  400 hours

LOL

I'll get right on that.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 07:12:17 PM
Quick build  400 hours

LOL

I'll get right on that.

Need something to do up here on days off in the winter. Besides shovel snow.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Golfer on January 08, 2009, 08:31:41 PM
400 hours is a very short time to build an airplane.  While the airplanes pictured here are quite simple by airplane standards the very popular RV's by Vans Aircraft can easily go north of 2000 hours of build time.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 09:08:34 PM
I'd get one if for no othere ason than its the only way I'll ever own a fighter (replica it may be, but its still based on a fighter). Two of my three favorite WWI fighters are Nieuports that they offer as kits on their site- the 17-24 models (basically the same, just different engines and gun packages) and the 28 that the USAS used.

My other is the Albatros, which I can't find a kit of on any of the sites that offer WWI kits.

I even have my paint scheme picked out if I were to get one. Nungesser.

(http://www.paperwarbirds.com/assets/images/n17.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Nieuport24bis.jpg)

(http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/files/images/classic-fighters-2005/screensize/cf05_nieuport-2.screensize.jpg)

(http://www.military-art.com/mall/images/dhm1590.jpg)

(http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/image3/imag_nu.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Curval on January 09, 2009, 10:50:21 AM
400 hours is a very short time to build an airplane.  While the airplanes pictured here are quite simple by airplane standards the very popular RV's by Vans Aircraft can easily go north of 2000 hours of build time.

No doubt.

But doing it would cost me 400 hours of time (may as well call it 4,000 hours for me as I don't get along well with tools), $10,000 and a divorce.

The 400 (or 4,000) hours and $10,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to what a divorce would cost me.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: skernsk on January 09, 2009, 11:07:31 AM
Cripes, I just dropped 10 grand to pay off our Vehicle yesterday!  I should have waited a day and I could have had one of these ...

Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Chalenge on January 09, 2009, 12:20:13 PM
400 hours to build and 40 hours in the air you decide you would rather have a pressurized cockpit and two engines with 1000 mile range or so...

http://www.cessna.com/single-engine/cessna-400.html
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Treize69 on January 09, 2009, 12:28:24 PM
I don't like new aircraft. I hate jets, don't like the new "high tech" building materials. Pretty much anything built since 1945 is an abomination as far as I'm concerned.

Give me wood and canvas, a 100Hp rotary with castor oil, and a pair of goggles and leather flying jacket, and I could soar off to the heavens and vanish from the earth with a smile on my face and no regrets.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: SmokinLoon on January 09, 2009, 12:38:02 PM
This would be a geat time.

I used to volunteer 24-400 hours a year as a reserve deputy sheriff... it really isnt that long.  One could stretch it out over 2 years and still it would be worth it.

I enjoy flying now, but renting an airplane is up to $75 an hour now.
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Chalenge on January 09, 2009, 12:47:44 PM
I don't like new aircraft. I hate jets, don't like the new "high tech" building materials. Pretty much anything built since 1945 is an abomination as far as I'm concerned.

Give me wood and canvas, a 100Hp rotary with castor oil, and a pair of goggles and leather flying jacket, and I could soar off to the heavens and vanish from the earth with a smile on my face and no regrets.

I like $500 hamburgers from the Bahamas.  :D
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: Furball on January 10, 2009, 03:10:58 PM
Awesome, would love any of those kits.

This is what i would really want though: -

http://www.lancair-builders.com/sentry/about.html

(http://www.pilotfriend.com/experimental/images9/40.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: sluggish on January 10, 2009, 05:33:58 PM
If I'm reading it correctly those kits don't come with an engine.  Where would you get the engine/prop and how much would that add to the total cost of the plane?
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: John Curnutte on January 10, 2009, 10:04:30 PM
 That Nieuport link is something else and the price is awesome , they have motors for sale in the link , I wonder can you dogfight in the thing . And is performance equal of the original planes . Great post and very interesting .
                                   Nutte :salute
Title: Re: Anyone have about 10 grand I can borrow?
Post by: croduh on January 11, 2009, 06:28:24 AM
I would never fly or drive, even walk on anything i made myself :lol

It is cheap though, 10000 for that, ...