Tracy Crook wrote:

Got back from SERFI fly-in at Evergreen AL. yesterday.   Ed Anderson,

Finn

Lasen and I were there with our rotaries.  There was to be an award
presented for the best auto powered plane there but they unexpectedly
canceled it. When we asked why, they explained that there were no auto
powered planes which were considered worth judging.  Made us feel about

as

welcome as a turd in a punch bowl.

There were two Chevy 4.3L powered RV-6s there, one being the Belted Air
Power factory plane.  It was the most professional looking installation

you

can imagine.  Sadly, on the way home it crashed killing pilot & passenger

.

No details on what happened but weather was apparently not a factor.

Tracy Crook
tcrook@rotaryaviation.com
www.rotaryaviation.com

Sorry to hear that.

Are you still coming to Copper State? I am signed up for a talk but
the same day you are (Sat.) at 9 am. Yours is 10 AM. Same talk I gave
at OSH. Aerodynamics of Liquid Cooling.

Paul Lamar

Thomas Parkes wrote:

Paul and Tracy:

    Sorry to hear the report of a Belted Air Power RV-6 crash.  You had me
really worried as Jess Myers, owner of BAP, is a friend.  A couple phone
calls to my sister-in-law in Las Vegas (who is Jess's CPA) determined that
Jess is alive and well in Las Vegas, and didn't know of the crash.  The
subject may have been a Belted Air Power equipped aircraft, but it was not
the original BAP RV-6A.

Tom Parkes
Lancair ES/Turbo 20b OK to 75 Knots
tparkes@earthlink.net-- 

Tom, how is it coming? You must be close to first flight.
Does that mean you have taxied it to 75 KTS?

Paul Lamar
 
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