Sonex Aircraft Story

Sonex

Just a few years ago I started to think about building an airplane. Then the economy turned south and I had scale down my thinking a little and along came SONEX. They had a deal that you just cannot refuse. An airplane that gets over 40mpg, uses about 3.5 gallons an hour, is fully acrobatic up to 6G's and you can take the wings off when you are done and take it home!

Well we started work Feb 2010 and coming up to 2 years now. With an ambitious schedule we thought Fall of 2011 and it came and went just too ambitious with being home only 2-3 days a week. Even with Larry the "premier" Navy trained Metalsmith, who definitely knows everything there is to know about aluminum we didn't cut any corners. Then Winter seemed to look like a good time and the rework we had to do to fix some clearance problems on the tail made that time frame slip away (yeah I should have waited for Larry to come over but drilled some holes without enough bolt clearance and we had to redo it all). Here we are sneaking up on Springtime and I am beginning to believe maybe early Summer. Throughout all this we have been depending on Spruce to keep us going. I wish we could foresee all the nickel-dime parts we were going to need but we can't. Every time we need something we have come to depend on the VERY quick shipping of Spruce. Needless to say the shipping rates help a lot to! It's no fun to pay $3 for a 20cent bolt, so we don't. Lower shipping prices at Spruce have and will keep us coming back. Hopefully we won't have to buy too much more before we are done, but come Summer I hope to take to the Friendly Skies of my own.

Berny A Foerster