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Sent: Sunday, October
19, 2008 2:39 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Rotary
Round Report
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
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!
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