Thanks to all you knowledgable folks for educating me a little on this. Just talked recently to Ken Cottle who put these BID wings of mine together back in 1987. My KR-1? was signed off for flight April 21, 1987. This is the plane used in the VHS video on how to install the Diehl wingskins. Both Dan and Ken looked pretty young back then. Funny how the people who built this plane don't look the same anymore even though the plane they built still does. Building an airplane is a way to make a small claim on immortality. I recently ferried an SA102 Cavalier from San Diego to Shelbyville, Indiana where the new owner is making it look like new again. The fellow who built it in 1974 died two years later but his plane lives on all these years later. When you builders put your nameplates on the fuselage under the tail, you have created something that will likely be around for a long time after you're gone. I doubt anybody thinks about that when they've finished building a plane, but somebody someday, looking at that nameplate, will wonder who you were.
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