Many of you have read this before, but there are a few new guy’s that may not have read this. I was looking for a cut/paste copy of this to pass on to someone but the only one I could find was Ed’s original post from years ago that was a clipped scan of the original magazine so I thought I’d post this HTML version so it will make it into the archives, making it easier for others to cut/paste it if they wanted to pass it along.

 

            “I hope that the combined efforts and ingenuity of these amateurs will settle, once and for all, the question of the rotary’s suitability for airplanes. I suspect that they will find in its favor. In the meantime they remain the noblest and most daring of homebuilders, hairy-chested heroes for whom the evidence that their latest idea was not a good one may well come in the form of an engine failure just after takeoff. They continue undaunted, and their numbers increase. The world owes them a debt of gratitude.”

 

Peter Garrison, Flying magazine, June 2003.

 

 

 

Todd Bartrim     (I always feel good when I read this)

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