The Socash family: Support, encouragement, and the occasional, "aren't you guys done yet?"
John Stewart and all the folks in Burlington, Colorado: John qualified us by asking, "do you know what end of a hammer to pick up?" We said YES, and he said, "you can build a plane."
Bob Miller: Earliest technical and machine shop support. Gave us a drill gauge and said, "you'll find this useful." What an understatement! Still with us in spirit.
Adam Boggs: Fellow RV builder with good advice and encouragement.
Gordon Page: A special, respected, knowledgeable friend who gives good advice.
Tom Edwards: Technical advice that's well worth following.
James Branche: Everyone has "best friends." Jim is one of ours.
EAA - Longmont Chapter: Support advice, and good fellowship.
Shara Stevens: Flight instructor extraordinare and great friend.
Joe Peterson: Flying and skydiving advisor, helper, website hoster, and much more. Thanks Joe.
Dakota Ridge (David McBlair, Korrie Van Deest)
Gene Francis: RV-6A builder kind enough to loan us some tools and give good advice.
Butch Wooten: A great data analyst and helicopter instructor.
Vans Aircraft Company: Hey, they may be abrupt sometimes in their answers, but the product is excellent and the support is first class.
Ervin G. Meyers: A special Godfather.
Dan Checkoway (www.RVPROJECT.COM): A very informative and interesting presentation on building and maintaining a RV-7.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
--- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Many friends and family members along with acquaintances who would become friends contributed in a variety of ways to this project.
We would like to thank the following people for contributing their help, support, tools and/or advice to this project:
Mom/Mary D: Mother and wife who puts up with an airplane being built in the house