LAA Vintage Aircraft

RV10 CLOSE TO FLIGHT

 

Being readied for flight in the hangar which is integral with the LAA’s office building is Chairman Roger Hopkinson’s four-seat Vans RV10, which is the first example of the type to reach completion in the UK.  The RV10, which is of typical Vans all-metal format with a cantilever low wing, is powered by a six-cylinder Lycoming IO-540 engine with MT constant speed propeller. First flight is expected in July, in the hands of Stan Hodgkins. Vans’s own RV-10 demonstrator has already been the subject of a flight review by Francis Donaldson, who found the aircraft to be well behaved so no great snags are anticipated with Roger’s machine which has been built exactly by the book.    

 

1st July 2008