Every body had a fine time. Perry Mick could not make it up due to weather
but Chuck Dunlap flew up from Safford AZ about a 1000 mile trip I would guess.
Chuck and his friend overnighted in Saint George Utah and woke up to
a 100 degree F day. After gassing up they were at or above gross and 
the coolant heated up on climb out. Chuck's Rad is on the small side with 
less than optimum ducting so he returned and landed. Went to the hardware
store and bought some drip irrigation tubing and installed a constant
dribble water system to cool the rad. The pax was in charge of the 
squeeze bottle. His job was to watch the water temp and squeeze as needed:)


The panel meeting on Sunday was a big success with a full tent.
We actually could have talked for two hours but but others had the
tent scheduled. Unfortunately the focus was not the best with extended
discussion on apex seals which have not been a problem since the
late 60's.  Dennis Hayes had some parts from the all aluminum Curtiss Wright
RC60 rotary engine along with a bunch of other neat show and tell stuff.

I also got to see Richard Martin's Mazda turbo rotary powered four place helicopter.
Very very impressive with big bucks being spent. 

More on all this later.

I would have been back yesterday but all UAL flights were over sold so
I could not get on standby.

Paul Lamar
 
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