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)
C-FSTB
Turbo
13B RV9