DOC 8 of 76, Quickie Files

"Hi I'm Mike, I fly a Quickie Q-200 that I built in my garage in NE St. Pete, Florida. The airplane took me 1500 hours and 18 months to build. If this seems like a long time to you then you won't like this… I think I'm the fastest person to ever build one. I spent at least 3 hours a day and most of the weekend building it over that 18 months. The first flight was in July 1985, seems like a long time ago. People often ask me how hard it is to build an airplane. Its not hard, its monotonous. Lots of little easy to do jobs, very little that requires extraordinary skill. I now have almost 1000 hours of flying time on the airplane. This is equivalent to going around the world 7 times, not bad for a little fiberglass and glue airplane. At the time I finished the plane it was one of the fastest airplanes flying at 200 MPH. Today the homebuilt airplanes are going 350+ MPH but the cost of these new planes is out of sight (around $400,000). I have around $18,000 invested in it and even today no airplane or kit airplane in this performance class comes close to that price. It's been a great economical aircraft. The wife and I have traveled from Florida to the Bahamas (many times), Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New York (circled the Statue of Liberty), and every restaurant airport in Florida (almost)."" --qdf_files, 09/04/06


DOC needs to be opened or view as PDF: Open this Microsoft Word Document (2.53MB) \| Open as PDF (3.68MB) MS Word copy of Mike's The Building of a Quick Airplane Close to 150 photos of his Q200 from a bare kit to a flying machine Add Comment (2 total) "DO NOT DOWNLOAD in ADOBE FROM HERE... WORD ONLY. .PDF does not read right... To download in Adobe go the the .pdf copy offered in the Quickie Files section, separate from this one." --qdf_files, 09/04/06 "Hi I'm Mike, I fly a Quickie Q-200 that I built in my garage in NE St. Pete, Florida. The airplane took me 1500 hours and 18 months to build. If this seems like a long time to you then you won't like this… I think I'm the fastest person to ever build one. I spent at least 3 hours a day and most of the weekend building it over that 18 months. The first flight was in July 1985, seems like a long time ago. People often ask me how hard it is to build an airplane. Its not hard, its monotonous. Lots of little easy to do jobs, very little that requires extraordinary skill. I now have almost 1000 hours of flying time on the airplane. This is equivalent to going around the world 7 times, not bad for a little fiberglass and glue airplane. At the time I finished the plane it was one of the fastest airplanes flying at 200 MPH. Today the homebuilt airplanes are going 350+ MPH but the cost of these new planes is out of sight (around $400,000). I have around $18,000 invested in it and even today no airplane or kit airplane in this performance class comes close to that price. It's been a great economical aircraft. The wife and I have traveled from Florida to the Bahamas (many times), Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New York (circled the Statue of Liberty), and every restaurant airport in Florida (almost)."" --qdf_files, 09/04/06
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