Well, moving the Rotary Round up a week certainly improved the weather for
me and I made it this year.  However, some of those wimps (who gave me a
hard time last year for letting a little weather keep me away)failed to make
it from Texas {:>) due to a "little" weather.  Took off at 1000 and landing
back in NC at 1315 after refueling stop at WayCross, GA.  A great trip and a
fun three days.

 

 

Actually, Bill Eslick and Linyda came roaring in about the time I figured I
had the Longest Distance Rotary award locked up.  So we missed the rest of
you guys - but I DO understand about the weather {:>).

 

  It was a smaller than normal group due to the weather and other factors we
all know about, but there was a lot of interaction and many new faces.  We
had one couple and one individual drive down from Canada for the Rotary
Round up - which gives you some idea how important it is to those interested
- particularly the new starters.  We ended up with three flying rotary
aircraft plus Tracy's nearly completed RV-8 20B powered.  That is going to
be some airplane (assuming Tracy finishes it, of course).  I asked and he
told me that he intended to fly it to next Sun & Fun.   

But, Laura pulled me aside and cautioned me about expecting too much on the
RV-8 finish date {:>).

 

A rotary engine rebuilder and racer gave an outstanding tear-down and
briefing.  Really knew what he was talking about - but, it was refreshing to
hear him say that there was a number of things about the application of the
rotary engine to aircraft that Tracy could better answer.  Richard Shone
showed his new castings for his one rotor project - boy, is that ever
looking good.  Richard appears to be in the home stretch with proof of
concept proven and now just some minor modifications to the casting
patterns.  This gentleman does know his mechanics and physics - not to
mention how to machine.

 

The Cozy Girrlllls (Chrissi and Randi) were there showing their products
(focused toward the canard end of things - no pun intended).   They had a
nice motor mount integrated with Tracy's redrive mount the new bezel for our
joint project on the EFISM.  This one was painted and really looked snazzy.
I'll take a photo and post it later.  They had several other products as
well, but I won't go into details - contact them directly if interested.

 

 

Electrical power went out as we sat around the campfire Saturday night and
it was entertaining watching and speculating about the cause - which ranged
from a "reportedly" major substation explosion several miles a way in Bell,
Fl (we did hear several sounds and pops) to a local line fuse popping.  I
must have not been too serious as a line crew had the power back on by
1100PM.   But, people did gravitate to the campfire and the only thing
missing was marshmallows.

 

Several folks got their first rotary ride, Richard ran his one rotor and it
sure sounds like its putting out power.   

So hopefully the weather will be more cooperative for the next rotary round
up and more folks can make it.  You just can't beat it.

 

As always, simply can't say enough about Laura and Tracy taking the time,
effort and $$ to put this effort together each year.  Laura was almost laid
back this time as she is used to handling over a hundred folks - so this was
almost a cake walk for her - right? Laura?  Again, a lot of effort was
exerted and while a bit smaller than normal it was a great crowd to spend
three days with.

 

Best Regards

 

Ed

 

 

Ed Anderson

Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered

Matthews, NC

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  _____  From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of DLOMHEIM@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:44 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Rotary Round Up this weekend

 

If any of you guys attending the roundup get a chance and can gain access to
a computer, it would be fun to have a summary of what you did, heard /
learned, posted here each day...just a thought from those of us "less
fortunate" types who won't be able to attend this year!   

Ed:  Looking at the weather on-line it appears you have some beautiful
flying weather today so "git er" airborne and head south!

 

Fly safe out there...

 

Doug Lomheim

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