George Moore wrote:

Paul,
   I was really sorry that I missed meeting you at Bensen days this
year, but I was glad to hear that you were there. I was there from
Thursday thru Saturday.  Rusty Nance told me on Saturday night that he
had met and spoken with you.  What did you think of Rusty's mile high
Air Command ?  Did you notice the ballistic chute under Rusty's keel ?
Rusty and Steve McGowen really put those Mazda Rotaries thru their
paces!  Both of them fly practicaly nonstop from sunup till sundown
treating passengers and students to a new experience in aviation.

 I got a chance to see how hot the Mazda 13B exhaust really gets, when
Steve flew by with little sunlight left one night, and a big portion of
his exhaust manifold was brightly aglow an intense cherry red. It looked
like the molten steel that I have seen at Bethlehem Steel !

Were you there, when they did the missing man tribute to Dr Bensen ?

I was glad to get to meet Tracy Crook and Dave Atkins at Sun n Fun.
Tracy had two of my Subaru engine friends on each side of him ! The
Subaru guys both represent the Subie-Lyc company that makes a really
nice belt drive PSRU.

    
 George

Yes they sure run the heck out of those rotary powered  gyro's. 7000 to 8000 RPM all
the time.
Rusty's gyro won an award I think at S&F. Bill Freeman and I saw him again on Tuesday
in the S&F gyro area. 

Larry Neal of New Horizons PSRU fame, of all people, developed that ballistic 
chute installation. I think Dave Atkins built Rusty's engine as he
was helping Dave get his rudder pedals fixed. Small world.

Missed the missing man gyro formation.

That is an extremely well designed and made cog belt PSRU. I took a lot of pictures
of it but they are still in the camera.

Paul Lamar
 
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