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I, too, would really miss the trip to Tracy's (actually Laura's).
There's a standing offer to Tracy & Laura to host a spring/early summer rotary get-together here in Mississippi if there is consensus that it would work.
We have 4800 ft of smooth grass here at Slobovia Outernational & Velocity class canards (anything with 5.00-5 tires & reasonable nosewheel) can land here with no problem. For those that absolutely can't handle grass, there's a 5300 ft municipal strip (HKS) 10 miles away. Closest motels are about a 20 minute drive into town, but those willing to tent camp or do the bedroll-on-the-floor thing can stay here 'on campus.'
Obviously, success would also depend on those that are flying being able to come & share their experience.
What do ya'll think? Can the rotary world support 2 events a year?
Charlie
Slobovia Outernational (MS71)
Jackson MS
Finn Lassen wrote:
No reason why we couldn't fly over to Cross Cirty (~10 mins flight) throughout the fly-in to have a look at them.
I've never understood the lack of flying once you arrive at such an event. Don't they drive their cars during a car-meet?
Also, no reason not to have several regular "rotary round-ups". We already have Charlie England sort of doing that in MS. If someone else wants to arrange and/or host something at Lakekand, go ahead. Actually there now is a yearly RV flying at Lakeland in January. No reason not to combine that with a "rotary round-up".
As long as Laura is willing to do it at Shady Bend (it's a LOT of work for her), I would sorely miss that.
Point already made: Tracy's hangar.
Finn
paul wrote:
Valid point. One other consideration is that if the rotary powered canard builders are shuttled in, others don't get to see their engine/installations unless everyone is shuttled back and forth to the paved strip every time another canard arrives. Paul Conner 13b canard.
----- Original Message -----
From: DaveLeonard <mailto:daveleonard@cox.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:36 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: rotary roundup, Missed you : Ed, Rusty,
John, and others
I bet there would be plenty of volunteers to shuttle people from
the hard surface runways to shady bend. That is until the event
is too big to hold at shady bend... which is several years away...
Dave Leonard
Some thoughts of mine for next year's roundup. We should
consider finding a location that can handle the canards
since they do not like grass runways. Location would have
to provide a building we could use to feed and hold our
"hangar talks in". The building could be an EAA club
house or an empty hangar. The flyin should be dedicated
to only interested "rotor heads".
Hi Bernie,
I absolutely agree with the above. The only additional
caveat would be that it be close enough to Tracy and
Laura to make sure they don't miss it. At some point, the
fly-in has to leave Shady Bend, though it won't be quite
the same. Lot's of people come to these things with lots
of interest, and no first hand knowledge of rotary
engines. Tracy's hanger is sort of a treasure chest of
goodies, where people can actually fondle engine parts.
As much as I pick on the backwards plastic plane types,
they are a growing segment of our population, and we
should try to accommodate them. Maybe NASA will let us
use on of their shuttle runways :-)
Cheers,
Rusty
Lakeland is looking for events to be held at their airport.
They also have all the facilities. Another thing, we could
have a “parts swap” during the event?
Bulent
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