----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 8:48
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] I'm better now
Greetings,
I've spent more time than
you can imagine thinking about what I was going to do with the RV-3 this
week. The whole experience was scary enough to want to abandon the
project, and that was the easiest decision. I even had two guys that
were planning to come here this weekend to look at the airframe. There
was even another guy who wanted it, but his wife wouldn't let him buy
another non-flying plane :-) I won't embarrass him by mentioning
his name... unless he pisses me off :-)
Anyway, the more I
thought about taking everything apart, the more I realized that I can't
abandon all the work that I've put into this project. I still may want
to put the engine into an RV-8 some day, but I've got a lot more experimenting
to do before I'm ready for that, and it's pretty hard to experiment without a
flying plane.
My plan is
to start putting the airframe back together this weekend, which will make
it easier to move out when I get evicted from the hanger. At that point,
I'll probably leave it alone until I get my hanger repaired, and get back in
it. In the mean time, I'm going to give serious thought to what I want
to change to improve safety. I may even abandon the evap cores for water
cooling as well. I just don't trust them anymore. This could be a
long process, and I may even wait until the Slingshot is flying again
before getting back to work on the RV-3. It will fly again though.
Cheers,
Rusty (really just too
lazy to change my email address)