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Thanks! I appreciate the kind words guys. You've all paid me back already. Seeing and hearing all those rotary powered planes in the Texas sky this year was priceless! Every first flight report gives me a 'rotary smile' : ) Keep'em coming!
Tracy
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
SALUTE!!!
Could not have said it better myself, Kelly.
Ed
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Kelly Troyer
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 1:21
PM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary]
"SALUTE" to Tracy Crook
As much as all in the group appreciate your hard work and
dedication to all our special
needs and requests (I am a recipient of some of those special
requests) it is time for you
to simplify your business (which you never intended to start)
and attend to the reason you
retired early in the first place !!............."To built and fly
your Rotary powered airplane" !!
If you had not taken on the leadership of the "Rotary
Engine Movement" and developed
the necessary peripherals that are necessary to turn the 13B and now
the Renesis into a
viable aircraft engine very few Rotary Engines would be flying to this
day............Now it
seems that every few days or weeks someone of our little group is about
to take to the
air and most will be flying your flight proven products (You
fly what you sell)...........
From one of your early customers (Who has not taken flight
because of 3 years being
caretaker to aging parents) I would like to express my appreciation for
all your hard
work and dedication to us with just as much enthusiasm for the
Rotary Engine as you
but lack your background and skills to provide the necessary parts
!!..............
--
Kelly Troyer
"Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
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message from Tracy Crook <tracy@rotaryaviation.com>: --------------
Thanks Ben, kind of missed going to Oshkosh this year but I feel good about
getting the -8 ready for it's inspection next week. Only about 5
years after my goal but Oshkosh 2010 should be a no brainer : )
Yep, I spend at least as much time trying to talk builders out of auto
conversions as I do 'into' it. Definitely not the fastest way to get into
the air.
Realizing how little time I've had to work on and fly my own plane lately
brought me to a decision this week. In the past, I've taken on every
request to do custom engine controllers and monitors for virtually any engine
that builders asked for. These end up as one of a kind systems that take
hundreds of hours to develop and support and I realized that is no longer
possible for me to keep up with. Time to simplify.
Glad there were some of you guys at Oshkosh
to fly the rotary flag this year though.
Tracy
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Ben Schneider <plumberben@yahoo.com> wrote:
All,
Got back from Oshkosh,
talked rotary with several rotary people, and a few newbies. One thing I
have tried to do when people ask about the rotary installation is not to give
people a pair of rose colored glasses. AL tell them that if they just want to
bolt on and go, then the rotary is not there yet, put on a Lycoming. But if
they enjoy tinkering, some problem solving, and building things by hand, then
it may be a good option for them. Don't want to discourage people from the
rotary movement, but also don't want to paint a false picture only to have them
start, then change, and badmouth the rotaries, we get enough of that the way it
is.
Rotary airplanes on the field were, Chuck Dunlop, Dave Atkins, and one
other fellow, I met on Tuesday that was in homebuilt camping area that I cannot
for the life of me remember his name. (sorry, I know you are on the list,
please chime in if you read this)
As far as the 11:00 am rotary gatherings, I think I did not do a very
good job of organizing that. Perhaps next year I will try to do better. I was
there Tuesday and we had three guys, Wednesday two, and Thursday I got tied up
somewhere else, and time got away from me. I think there were more that showed
up, but we had no way of identifying each other. I am not sure what the best
way to make it more obvious is, perhaps next year we meet at one particular
airplane at a given time, instead of just in front of the homebuilt
headquarters. There were about 75 to 100 people hanging around there most
anytime I walked buy there. Maybe we can get Tracy to fly his RV8 next year and that can
be the meeting place. Might make for some easier to tell who is there for the
rotary, and who is just sitting in the shade. (actually, perhaps all those 75
to 100 people were there for the rotary meet up! ;)
David Cook - I was hoping to meet you this year, I met a guy last year
that is in your EAA chapter (if I remember right) and he told me about your
project. Sorry we didn't cross paths.
Tracy -
you were missed there this year. Just isn't the same without you there. Perhaps
next year with the 8. :)
Ben
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