Welcome back Paul;

Looks like I beat you back home by about a day or so.....I have to admit that it felt strange for me not to have to spend a few days playing catch-up with ACRE :)

It was also quite a pleasing surprise to read Mecanair's Rotary is alive and well, I had pegged them as: "Another good one Bites the Dust", due to marketing mis-management.

Francois, it's a pleasure to meet you in writing and will look forward to meeting you in person God willing, at S-N-F next month....Seems like you're very excited and eager to dive in, I have to admit that if I had been younger and not as busy as I was/am, I would have personally picked up a previous Gauntlet that was dropped years back and would have done the exact same thing you and your organization are presently doing, and that is, hit the Experimental market hard by offering Stability, Quality, Flexibility in Product Offerings, Fair pricing and Customer Service. There are a couple of engine suppliers offering non FAA certified experimental engines in kit form as well as complete assemblies ready to bolt on....For Pete's sake they even give you the chance to custom assemble your own via WebSite, now that's what I call clever marketing, which BTW was originated by the Computer manufacturers. These people are having a hard time keeping up with demands......
The Rotary is a natural shoe in on the Experimental Aviation market which is a phenomenally growing business haven for you guys, that is providing you're prepared to take on the complete spectrum of Builders, by this I mean, sell complete Bolt-On installations for the $$$ fortunate as well as Bare Components for the not so called $$$ fortunate, struggling to raise a family but yearn to build and fly (A lot of us oldies been there), but later down the road they do become $$$ fortunate....I don't need to mention that there are hundreds if not thousands of us on ACRE that can quite easily come up with a very nice list of things to buy from you guys in a heartbeat :)

In my earlier years, I was fortunate to meet a gentleman whom I still consider the smartest, most honest and business sense man to date, that I still miss dearly since his demise 15 years ago. He once told me, "The World is an Oyster, but it all depends on how you open it".
You seem to be on the right track, we'll talk further in person at S-N-F.

Francois, on a separate note, I'm doing some R&D for the benefit of the ACRE subscribers on Mazda Starters and would greatly appreciate if you could tell me which Mazda Starter is being used on the Mecanair Rotary pictured bellow ie; Year and car Model, Engine, Manual/Automatic Xmission and Mazda Part No. This will help us out a lot in narrowing the field.

BTW,......Air Rotary or Aero Rotary IMO, hits home ;)

Welcome aboard and Good Luck on your exciting undertaking!!

Butch Diaz Sr.

 
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