REFLECTOR: Deltahawk engine
Grigore Rosu
grosu at cs.uiuc.edu
Sat May 7 15:37:28 CDT 2005
Tony,
Thank you for your good point. Honestly, I would be really very happy
to finish it in two years or so. I have indeed no exprerience in building
aircraft, though I enjoy crafting in general. However, with my
research and teaching responsibilities at the Univ. of Illinois, I'll
be lucky to find 25 hours a week for my airplane. I don't watch TV, so
that may give me about 2 hours a day :-) Scott Baker promissed
to try his best to get me in the Head Start program at mid-August for one
week. Hopefully I'll get some basic building knowledge that week to
guide me afterwards.
Indeed, it would be really wonderful to have the possibility to take a
look at somebody's else more advanced project from time to time ... I'd
like to take this oprtunity to kindly ask if there is any builder any
close to central Illinois, the Champaign-Urbana area.
With thanks,
Grigore
On Sat, 7 May 2005, tonybabb wrote:
> Grigore,
>
>> start on Sept 1st. According to Velocity Inc, it should take 800h to
>> build it. At 25h/week that means 40 weeks, which means that I should be
>
> 800 hours is probably about right if you've had previous experience, or if
> you're building at the builders center in Sebastian and have the benefit of
> the support from Scott S, Brendan and the other guys right at your side.
> Their remote support by phone or e-mail is also very helpful but there's no
> substitute for looking at someone's kit that's a few months ahead of you to
> see how things are done or having someone alongside who's already built 20
> Velocities.
>
> If you're building at home and this is your first project, or if you decide
> to change some things in the standard kit you should add some "head
> scratching" time.
>
> Tony
> SEFG
> 62% done, 78% to go
>
>
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