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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:33 PM
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U.S. man knocks out wall, pulls plane from basement
Edited on Mon May-30-11 09:36 PM by AsahinaKimi

CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Lots of houses have a two-car garage. Dan Reeves' had a one-airplane basement.

Until, that is, the central Pennsylvania man knocked out a wall to get it out.

Reeves spent the past nine years building a two-seat airplane in the basement of his Cumberland County home. The plane arrived in pieces via mail but eventually it became way too big to get up the steps.

So Reeves dug a trench down to the foundation and took out a wall. Reeves pulled the plane out Wednesday using a truck, a chain and some neighbors.


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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:38 PM
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1. Might he have considered a car port?
Geebus.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:38 PM
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2. Wow! Now, there's the spirit of can-do!
Good for him.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:39 PM
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3. Nice! Looks line a Van's RV-7!


http://www.vansaircraft.com/public/rv-7int.htm
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pa28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 10:25 PM
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12. Good call. I've only seen the taildragger version before but it's the same plane.
The quality of his work seems to be very nice as well. Apparently he got carried away.

:shrug:
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:47 PM
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4. I guess that's one way to do it.
Seems like poor planning, but at least he got it out before installing the wings.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:49 PM
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5. So he can afford to build his own plane...
...but now one of those steel-framed canvas-covered car shelters to put it in?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:50 PM
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6. And this was the plan all along. Right? Right?
Or does this guy even OWN a tape measure?
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 09:56 PM
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7. Reminds me of the sign in a box that says (as the person runs out of room):
PLAN AHEAD
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 10:00 PM
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8. This is one The Onion wishes they'd made up. (n/t)
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 10:08 PM
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9. Am I the only one who thought of this?
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 10:10 PM
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10. No - that was my first thought. nt
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 10:18 PM
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11. I know guys who install whole machine shops in their basement
Edited on Mon May-30-11 10:19 PM by FreakinDJ
Always trying to get some one to calc the load stress of sliding a 4000lb lathe down the stairs - no kidding
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:05 AM
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17. If they would just build their own 4000lb lathe from scratch
and in their basements already, they wouldn't have to figure stuff like that ;)

Lindsay's Books
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 11:32 PM
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13. And now he has a garage too!
I don't know about y'all, but I'd be on my way to Home Depot for a garage door, some lumber to form up a sloping driveway and the number of the closest concrete company.

'Course, I would have built the garage BEFORE I built the airplane in it, but that's just me.
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holdencaufield Donating Member (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 11:42 PM
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15. Priorities
He will have more fun in the RV-7a than he EVER have in a garage. I'm building an RV-10 myself and -- it's a bit like one of country churches where they fund the building exclusively from donations -- you focus on the construction and sometimes can't conceive of the day when it will ever be completed.

I once read a blog of a man building the same RV-7 over the course of 17 years -- he has pictures of the plane at various stages of construction. One interesting feature is that over the years -- he's had three different wives -- but only one plane.

Again -- PRIORITIES
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 03:45 AM
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20. You know the leading cause of death among homebuilt aircraft constructors?
I read once that a lot of guys who build planes die on their first flight because in their hunger to get the plane done, they quit flying during construction and their skills diminish.

This happened to one of my high school classmates: He spent three years building his plane and didn't fly once. He lived on a farm that had a straight gravel road long enough to use as a runway, so he decided a nice maiden voyage would be to fly from his farm to St. Maries (Idaho) Municipal Airport. He took off just before dark. St. Maries Municipal Airport (look at http://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=47.326111%7C-116.577611&style=h&lvl=14&v=1 to see what he was facing), made an eastbound approach and landed in the river.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 11:42 PM
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14. I knew a guy who was building a plane in his dorm room.
Disciplinary action ensued when a RA found out about it and reported it.
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 11:45 PM
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16. So now he knows what childbirth is like
Not many men get to experience anything even close.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:06 AM
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18. I hope that wasn't a load-bearing wall,
and that he sufficiently reinforced it first, or he'll have trouble later... :o
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toddwv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:10 AM
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19. In related news...
A CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania man's home collapses after digging out the foundation's support and knocking down a load-bearing wall.

All joking aside. That guy is truly determined...
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:08 AM
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21. It was far cheaper to replace the wall than to rent hanger or shop
space for nine years. Further, it was more convenient to do the work at home. The builder knew what he was doing.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 11:35 AM
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22. You don't even want to know about the ocean liner he's building. nt
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