Duncan said: "I (perhaps foolishly) actually want to build my own plane. I might regret this, of course, but that's how I feel at the moment. If all you guys can successfully build really great planes, then so can I."
Don't can the idea of building. It's really not as hard as it appears and it is probably one of the most rewarding things you could do. I'd much rather build my plane than buy it completed, that way I become intimately knowledgeable about every single part, joint, blemish, nut, bolt and wire in the thing, and I can then be totally confident that I can perform the maintenance on it myself. One of the other perks of building it yourself, you can save a whole bunch of cash on the upkeep. There are some good local sources for parts as well that bear investigating, Jabiru do provide a good deal of comparitively inexpensive bits for us on this (correct) hemisphere, and the owner of the Joey 2 kit as advertised in Pacific Flyer magazine also can and has supplied parts to local KR builders as well. Cheers. Peter Bancks [email protected] http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net
