X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com ([17.148.16.102] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.1) with ESMTP id 5099756 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:20:21 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=17.148.16.102; envelope-from=glasair2@me.com MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from [192.168.2.201] (ip70-177-24-126.sb.sd.cox.net [70.177.24.126]) by asmtp027.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-18.01 64bit (built Jul 15 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LQB005QLZOMOA30@asmtp027.mac.com> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:19:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-08-22_03:2011-08-22,2011-08-22,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1108220103 Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Weight of Mistral Reduction Drive From: Steve Thomas In-reply-to: Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:19:34 -0700 Message-id: References: To: Rotary motors in aircraft X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) Well, almost dead. Mistral is back in business as we speak. They restarted operations in May, IIRC. I have been in regular communication with them. Best Regards, Steve Thomas _______________________________________________________ On Aug 21, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Bryan Winberry wrote: > I think this is how you tell when a thread is dead! > BW > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On > Behalf Of Chris Barber > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 10:35 PM > To: Rotary motors in aircraft > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Weight of Mistral Reduction Drive > > Also, even if you could still buy it is orphaned. Yeah, I have heard they > may be back, I just doubt it. These guys may be brilliant engineers but I > have little faith in the business flare. Course they live in a country > slightly more socialist than us so they may have restrictions I can not > grasp.....yet (yes, that is a directed slight to Chairman Barry and the > Central Committee). > > Also, even though I have the Mistral intake, NO support or even polite > direction was provided. I seriously question their business model. > > Sent from my iPhone 4 > > On Aug 21, 2011, at 8:41 PM, "Thomas Mann" wrote: > >> Kelly, >> Yeah it's all interesting but what does it matter? >> Even if it weighs in at 5 lbs, you still can't buy it. >> >> I talked with them about buying the intake manifold ...... no dice. > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html > > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html