[Wing] Re Ted's Welcome

[Alan Cornyn]

If ever in Pincher Creek, I'll give you a ride.  It won't be like a
Cardinal.        Rv-6 180 c/s        Al at 403-627-3038 or 3538 ----
Original Message -----
From: Cliff Adams <cliffada at telusplanet.net>
To: <wing at vansairforce.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: [Wing] Re Ted's Welcome


> My name is Cliff Adams. I live in Edmonton, teach highschool physics and
> biology and I've just started an RV7A...clecoed the HS skins last night
> as my first official act in what I think will be a 3 to 4 year project.
> I'm planning full IFR, 200HP, slider ...if I can talk Ralph Klein into
> giving me a raise... otherwise as some of you might know, teachers are
> getting a bit restive and looking for a decent raise so I may have two
> unplanned weeks in November just for building!...enough of
> politics...the RV7A is probably the best thing Van has put on the market
> so far. Pre-punched skins are ...well once you've played with them you
> will never want to go back to the other kind. This looks to be a treat
> for a project. I also have an RV6A tail assy almost completed but
> unmodifiable as an RV7 tail...this tail feathers set goes on hold until
> I can figure out what to do with it...perhaps make it a -6 as a second
> project for when I retire in a couple of years.
>
> My 83 year old father (still flying!) is helping mainly with advice and
> with some of the tools...he just happened to have a compressor... Dad is
> a pre-WW2 Canadian Airways tech (instrument shop) and the RCAF trained
> me as an I-Tech in 1960.
> Both Dad and I are Cessna Cardinal drivers but we haven't flown much
> lately.
>
> Enough for a start... I've never had a ride in an RV but I'm still
> grinnin'
>
> Cliff
>
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