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Mark,
Re your comment about the "flying
chainsaw"... Met a guy yesterday at EAA Chapter 14 with a pretty nice RV-8,
IO-360, CS prop, blah, blah, blah. Nice military paint scheme and good
construction. Pretty typical RV-8. I've seen the airpalne and the guy around
before and have always gotten a pretty snooty, aloof vibe from him so havent
ever spoken to him before.
Yesterday it was the only really interesting
plane there so I struck up a conversation. He was relatively talkative and I
mentioned that I had a flying RV-6A and an almost ready to fly
RV-4.
Him: "The -4 is a great flying plane - you are
going to have a blast flying it! O-320?"
Me: "Uh, no - Mazda rotary out of an
RX-7."
He scrambled away like I had plague mumbling
something about stupid people screwing up perfectly good RVs. I saw this coming
which is why I've never really talked with the guy before. Still torques me off
when I meet some close minded jack ass like this who is supposedly an
Experimental aviation supporter.
Mike Wills
RV-4 N144MW
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:57 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Lancair ES - 20B
Takeoff
Thanks Kelly,
The old-timers at the airport call me "the
flying chainsaw". ;-)
But that's ok. 100LL is $5.10/gal
and I'm burning mogas at $3.62/gal. While nowhere near cheap, it is
$1.48/gallon less than 100LL. I've noticed a newfound interest in the
rotary engine amongst the airport bums lately.
Mark
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Kelly Troyer < keltro@att.net> wrote:
Mark,
You sure do not have anything to apologize for
!!..........Flying that
thing has to be a thrill every time........Awesome !!
--
Kelly Troyer
"Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
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Original message from "Mark Steitle" <msteitle@gmail.com>:
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If anyone is interested, I posted a video of my
3-rotor Lancair on Youtube. I apologize in advance for the
photography (my son-in-law took the video). ;-) And no, it isn't
out of focus, it was 94* the day it was taken and what you're seeing is
the heat coming off the runway. Check it out at... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiSSGU7wmMA#GU5U2spHI_4Mark
S.
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