OK gang, fire away I know it's not Friday but I can't resist any longer. BTW, look at the 12" ruler on the side of the engine:-)
I wanted you get you here with that subject line. No, I am not like the Wendy's man and "unofficially" associated with Abby at Flightline Interiors, http://my.execpc.com/~erdmannb/ but I do have a big mouth and have a tendency to speak my mine:-) and if it's nice I'll tell ya. I received my interior from Abby yesterday. Let's put it this way, I'm going to have to increase my level of workmanship to match the quality of the work I unboxed yesterday!! If you are in the market for an interior, my recommendation is contract Abby at the above site or call 262-679-5934. I'm not discrediting any other interior provider, I am just at a loss for words on how great Abby's work is. A little history, as most you you know I went off the deep end and went with Imron black as my paint color. It seems the black airplane took on a life of it's own and progressed to having a carbon fiber panel, as much glass as possible in the panel including a 7" DVD screen for the passenger, gold powder coated rotary engine http://rvflying.tripod.com/goldengine.jpg, rocket tinted canopy and a bunch of other little do-dads. Well, a name had to be decided on so Black Magic was it with Mickey's little wizard hat reproduced as a 3" gold replication on the VS. Now, here is where it gets fun. I relayed this theme and interior desires to Abby by way of the phone. She was wanting to get more into custom interiors in addition to "normal" interior work. Once again, some will consider my path somewhat on the trailing edge of normal:-) Several ideas were bounces back and forth until a final idea was decided upon. Abby then took this idea and ran with it. I wanted the Black Magic theme to be somewhat discreet, this was achieved. Here is a pic of the passenger side panel http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior1.jpg In keeping with the gold trim here is the baggage compartment rear cover with tonneau cover http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior2.jpg progressing to the pilot side side panel http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior3.jpg The pictures make the stitching stand out much more than it really is. As you can see, the starburst comes out of the finger, does a couple loops across the seat backs and disappears into the palm. Way too cool in my book!! Folks, Abby doesn't have creativity cornered but she sure know where the corner is. As I count the interior panels, I see over 30 individual panels to install using 3M 77. Each panel is cut and numbered for easy install. No alum will be seen anywhere inside the cockpit, forward fuselage or baggage compartment including the rudder motor housing and seat back brace. The attention to detail is so obvious, it's incredible. Look at the cutout for the fuselage vertical member on the side of the tonneau cover http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior4.jpg This is the panel just forward of the spar carrythough on the pilots side...........nice pen holder http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior5.jpg This pic shows just what I mean about the attention to detail http://rvflying.tripod.com/interior6.jpg This is the pic of the lower baggage compartment panel. On the top you see the very small cutout for wrapping it around the vertical support, on the top front you see the cutout to wrap it under the armrest and in front of the seat back support vertical post. About 1/2 way down is the round cutout for the rudder cable and the bottom cutout is for the flap weldment. This is just one example of the quality of Abby's work. Folks, if you are in the market for an interior you need to do yourself a favor and check out Abby's website. It is worth the look!! You can certainly criticize my choices:-) but you can't Flightline Interior's work. Dana Overall 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host Richmond, KY i39 RV-7 slider, Imron black, "Black Magic" Finish kit 13B Rotary. Hangar flying my Dynon. http://rvflying.tripod.com/aero1.jpg http://rvflying.tripod.com/aero3.jpg http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackrudder.jpg
