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Hey! if I wanted a bunch of passive agreement, I'd
talk to myself.
I agree, you have to be ready to deliver before you
start the press release gambit. When I can go on your website, enter my info,
make a transaction and parts show up on my step the next week you will sell some
parts. Once you have a track record as a going concern, maybe enough
resources to field an NXT with your engine in it and spank some LYCON booty
at Reno a few times. A factory demo aircraft to take people flying in, and a
balance sheet to prove you aren't going to disappear with the next downturn AND
you pass certification, then you can probably get in to talk to somebody at an
airframe manufacturer. If that is your goal, I suggest you draw up a plan to
achieve it. I think you will be stunned at how much money it will take. I think
you can make a go of it making a run of parts now and then like Tracy and do OK.
Ask Tracy how much he enjoys being technical support sometime ;-)
The wonderful thing about the marketplace (as long
as there is one) is you are free to go out and prove me wrong. I would do a
serious case study of all the other companies that have tried this first from a
business standpoint...not technical. On the technical aspects we agree. The
business....not so much.
I'll cheer for you. Just don't mortgage the
farm on it.
Monty
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 4:08 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Not surprised,
but still disappointing...Mistral dimise
Monty,
I disagree on some points, but that is life. Still my feeling is that
your best bet would be in the homebuilt market. I think pushing for
certification is crazy until you have customers and a track record. You're
correct that you would have a tough nut to crack in the STC world. I don't
think you can make a go of that EVER. I do think you can get manufacturers to
install a new certified engine in a new airframe often enough to survive, just
barely. I am mostly in agreement here... I think you're going to have the best
luck in the homebuilt market if your engine has advantages in weight,
compactness, multi-fuel capability, BSFC or power. I believe that a
properly configured rotary can hit several of those. The key is to have
tested the engine and FWF so that when a customer asks when he can
take delivery your answer is, "When your check clears." All this years of
waiting baloney just killls any enthusiam for a new product. You absolutely
MUST be ready to hit the gate running or you'll never get anywhere.
Bill Jepson
-----Original Message-----
From: MONTY ROBERTS
<montyr2157@windstream.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Fri, Jun 11, 2010 12:54
pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Not surprised, but still
disappointing...Mistral dimise
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