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His name is Sam Hodges. I was surprised that I had never heard of him, so I did a search of the fly rotary list and found one reference to him by Doug Lomheim back in Jan of this year. He is not listed as a customer of Tracy’s but has a lot of Tracy’s stuff installed.

Unfortunately, I have not kept the customer list up to date in years. I would guess that less than 15% of customers are active on this list. There are a lot of "lone rangers" out there. For example, a grass farmer from Oregon (Marion Knox) made the first flight in his Renesis powered RV-6 a week or so ago.

Tracy Crook

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Bryan Winberry <bryanwinberry@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Bill,

It’s a hand crafted 74" X 88 Prop from Catto.

BW

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bill Bradburry
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:05 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Stealthly rotary builder

Does anybody know what kind of prop that is? I think Sam’s rad and oil cooler were made by Ed Klepsis at TechWelding. Looks like it may be a water to oil cooler.

Bill B

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bryan Winberry
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:23 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Stealthly rotary builder

I have traded emails with him, but it has been a while. I don’t know if these pics are still accurate.

Bryan

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bill Bradburry
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:13 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Stealthly rotary builder

A friend just sent me a group of pictures of a really well built RV-9A with a rotary installation. He has just done his first engine start. His name is Sam Hodges. I was surprised that I had never heard of him, so I did a search of the fly rotary list and found one reference to him by Doug Lomheim back in Jan of this year. He is not listed as a customer of Tracy’s but has a lot of Tracy’s stuff installed.

Talk about your really good job without any input from the list!

I would like to see more of his plane so I hope someone who knows him will post some picures soon.

Bill B