It is always good to have in mind what you want to accomplish and what better way than to have a picture to go by, and Van’s RV-10 says it all.

 Hello and welcome. We hope this site will be of some interest to family friends and others and to those RV builders who will follow in the future and at the same time wish to express our gratitude to those who have taken the time to get their projects on the net for us to watch.  Without them I wonder???????????

 Let me introduce Russ Bjork, my step son, and chief pilot to be.  He has always wanted to fly and was turned down by the Air Force for a minor medical problem years ago.  Then life and family took precedence over the dream to fly but the dream never went away and the corner is turned.  Presently he is attending ground school, taking flying lessons, holding down more than a full time job as computer technician for a title company, spending one weekend a month at the Idaho Air Guard as an A-10 crew chief, AND taking care of his family.  Add on building an RV-10 in his spare time and I think he has a full life plus.

 Me?  Years ago I made the decision to join the Navy and spent four years shore duty as an R3350 engine mechanic and plane captain (more recently termed flight engineer) flying P2v airplanes out of Jacksonville, Florida.  Those airplanes still serve as forest fire retardant bombers and occasionally come to McCall, Idaho were I live.  I never lost my ear for the sound of that particular airplane and rush to the airport to watch every time the come here.  I have told more than one person I would pay big money to start one of those big engines again.  However time has moved on and I have been grounded with career in construction and family for the last forty or so years.  Flying again might have all been forgotten except that the one friend I kept from my Navy days has been building his own RV airplane for the last seven years and he has on occasion shared his pictures with me. Right now I am sort of thinking retirement.  You can guess the rest. My part will be chief builder and mechanic.

 I got the idea for this site off the internet by reading text by Mark and Angela Lanier, RV-10 folks, and hope to accomplish the purpose of fulfilling the log and photo requirements for possible FAA purposes. Russ is the so called third hand aid to get it done.  Our aviation experiences have been limited by living lives in other fields till now. We can only hope others will feel free to give us good useable advice but at this time make no claim to being able to help others. Some of the text may look a little confusing because we originally started the log as a daily chronological document and only after trying to fit it together on the internet did we discover we would need to do things by component but rest assured it is all there the best we could do with limited internet experience.  Thanks for looking us up.