Peter Cowan/Lexi Cameron wrote:

You asked for comments on THE  EVENT.
I didn't arrive til Monday so missed Tracy's talk. Aside from a fine chat with
Tracy and Laura at their plane, I was very dissapointed with the rotory side of
things and had that been my primary objective  for going, it would've been a BIG
letdown.
Actually, to touch and feel (so to speak) rotaries and their owners WAS my primary
objective  for planning the trip but as it turned out managed to get a lot of
useful info on other subjects. (Is anyone else sold on the $249 angle of attack
instrument??)

Another year, I'd get there earlier and camp on the field. But in addition, It
would be better to see a little more structure to rotary networking so that we
could get to meet each other. I did see the back of your head, Paul, at one forum
but chose to grab Tracy afterwards cause he was closer.)

One interesting conversation was with a Rebel owner flying a Rotax 912. When I
mentioned my interest in Rotaries he reacted as though I'd punched him and he began
the usual rant. He did finally calm down and even apologized for his outburst.

Sorry I missed you Peter. That must have been the Paul Ross of Alturdyne talk.

By noon on Monday Dave Atkins had his airplane up at the GA hangar area to
repair his brake pedals. Unfortunately Ed Andersen or George Graham  did not
make it this year.
 
Did you see the Golden Circle & Titan airplanes in the ultra light area with 
Wankel Gmbh engines? Also there was a gyro in the helicopter area with a 13B.
There were two more Mazda rotary powered gyros at Bensen Days 40 miles South of
LakeLand at Wachulla.

Laura was supposed to have a log of messages we could get together with.
I must admit I forgot to look at/or for it. One thing was.. we all seemed to 
meet at the Picadilly Restaurant on South Florida Ave. at 7 PM.  

Another tip is Tracy takes a break when the air show starts and goes to the 
camping area somewhere near the main entrance. Tracy & Laura now have a
large banner with the words "ROTARY ENGINE" on it put up near the tent.
BTW Tracy had to fly up on Tuesday prior to the show to get a good camping spot.

Hopefully we will be better organized by OSH. The trick there is we all meet
on the North side of the control tower at noon each day. On the grass bank in the
shade of the tower.
 
Paul Lamar
 
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