Well this is a record month for the number of email messages.
The first month on the CD almost four years ago we had 93 messages.
This month there were (so far we have an hour and a half to go)
there were 989 messages added to the CD. A growth in the number 
of messages in a little under four years of ten times.

I hope this is indicative of the number of rotary powered airplanes 
that we will see at Sun & Fun and OSH this year.

I think we had four last year at Sun & Fun and six at OSH.

BTW the Everett Hatch Memorial Fund still has about $1,000  
prize money so the first person that averages over 200 MPH in the 
Sun 100 Race with a rotary powered airplane will receive 
a check for $500. You just better hope Dave Garber does
not enter. I am sure he could average over three
hundred miles per hour and have the fastest time over 
all bar none for any race run so far in the entire history 
of the Sun 100 with his twin 350 HP Mazda wankel turbo huff 
and puff. 

Allan Tolle a few years ago set the un official time
to climb record in a nitrous burning Mazda 13B peripheral port 
engine built by Everett Hatch. No telling where we would be if 
Everett were (was or were?) still alive.

Paul Lamar
 
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