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Matt Dralle's RV-6 Project
Greetings! This blog documents the further adventures of Matt Dralle and the purchase and revitalization of his RV-6, N360EM.
http://www.mattsrv8.comPurchasing RV-6 N360EM In 2010 I flew my RV-8 N998RV over 170 hours from the Test Flight on May 2 2010 to the Mishap on May 1 2011. That's a lot of flying and a lot of fun. For the last three and a half months, I haven't flown at all, and I have to say I was really missing it! So, I got the great idea to get me another airplane to fly in the meantime while the RV-8 gets rebuilt! I kept my eye on http://www.barnstormers.com for a couple of weeks and a nice RV-6 showed up for sale and best of all it was over in Vacaville, not far from Livermore. The RV-6 is similar to the RV-8, but it has side-by-seating instead of tandem seating. There are a few other differences too, but basically it is, for all intense and purposes, the same basic airplane. I called up the seller and asked some questions about it and we scheduled a Saturday about three weeks ago for him to fly over to Livermore so I could check it out. When he arrived, we pulled the cowling off and I had a look at the engine and stuff under the hood. The plane was built by the seller, Ed Martinson, in 1994 and he has put about 1300 hours on it since he first flew it back then. After the inspection, we went for a little flight so I could check it out first hand and get a sense of how it flew and handled. I was impressed all around by the quality of the plane and so the next week I made him an offer on it and he accepted.
I flew the RV-6 about 4 hours when I decided that I just really missed having the glass panel and all the electronic navigation goodies that I had become accustom to in the RV-8. I also missed the VP-200 electrical system, the electric flaps, the electric trims, the Infinity stick grips, the TruTrak dual axis autopilot, the race car quality Hooker harnesses, and of course the totally sweet stereo intercom and jammin tunes from the PM3000/Kenwood combination. And I certainly missed the uber-comfortable, all-leather ClassicAero interior I'd put in the RV-8.
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