Experimental Air - Kit Plane Parts

Arlington 2003

Here are some photos taken on my wife Desi and I's trip to the EAA annual Northwest Fly-in located in Arlington Washington.

Getting There

Here are some pics of the flight over. We flew from Coeur d'Alene, ID direct to Arlington which takes you over the North Cascades. About a two hour flight in a Cessna 172. This particular rental plane had an 0-360 and a fixed pitch prop. That really jazzed it up. It was no RV, but good by my standards.

Mt. Adams is just east of Arlington. It was clear on the way over...

...but a little cloudy on the way back.

Some cool RVs

Here is a really nice RV-6. It belongs to John Hughes from Socal. He is a machinist and did a meticulous job of finishing this plane.

Look at how clean this panel is.

Nice mods. I plan to make a tailwheel cover like this.

I really like this idea, he notched out the canopy sill to make more shoulder room. I copied this idea and put it on my 7. I thought is was a cool new idea untill I talked to Tom Greene and he said he did the same thing to his 6 years ago.

This is a picture of Bob Hasson's cowling mod for the oil door. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the entire plane. Check out the January 03 Sport Aviation if you want to see more on this plane.

I really like the color of Bob's interior. He gave me the color code and I am going to use it when I paint my interior one of these days.

Check out this clean panel and labeling.

His work is a good as any I have seen.

Here is Randy Levold's 8.

He painted this little sweetheart himself. Hopefully he will have it back in the air soon.

I like this paint job, maybe a little over the top for me, but still, very nice. I talked to this couple for a long time. I think they were from California. They had just finished the plane and the guy absolutely could not stop smiling. I don't blame him.