Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #30370
From: Al Gietzen <ALVentures@cox.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Paint job
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:27:49 -0800
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Paint job

 

Look great, Al 

You now have your Silver "Bullet".  Amazing how much just the paint and materials cost to cover even a small aircraft.  Are we going to see you at Sun & Fun this year - looks complete to me?

 Ed

Thanks, Ed. Although I’d love to be able to fly it to Sun & Fun; it won’t be ready for an across the country flight that soon.  Right now other things will take my time, so it won’t get to the airport for about a month.  Then there are the various checkouts and FAA inspection; and we never know how long it takes to fly off 40 hours on an experimental. And you’re right about the cost.  The cost of the paint seems to go up by about 50% a year.  I have about $1500 into paint and supplies for the job; double what I had estimated.

 

Al;  That really looks great.  Is that $90.00 an hour for 100 hrs, or $100.00 an hour for 90 hours?   JohnD

 

Yeah; I’d take either one of those.  Even starting from the point of being in ‘final’ primer, my log shows a bit more than 200 hours to get the job done.

 

Have followed your progress for several years and look forward to hearing that you are in the air !!         Kelly Troyer

 

That’s the final ‘proof of the pudding’ isn’t it.  I’m sure looking forward to getting this thing in the air too.

 

Al

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