Edward Klepeis wrote:

Dear Paul
        If everyone in the rotary movement wants to boost the image

as

I

suggested may be one year ago  why not do a TV series on installing

an

automotive eng in a aircraft say a rotary into a tail wind. The only

one

to

show any interest was Bruce doing the eng. Do I hear any one else

comming on

board with any ideas or thoughts Tracey.Paul,etc.come on guys we are

not

dead yet. If the boys from NY can do it  with motorcycles why can't

we

do it

with a interesting subject like putting a auto eng into an aircraft

I

think

the viewing public is ready for a subject change.

Regards

Ed

techwelding@comcast.net

Short of a million dollars I would not know how to go about producing
that.
Anybody know Mel Gibson personally?

Paul Lamar

[Herb Sanders]
Paul, Some years ago, Peter Garrison told me his wife produced movie/tv
docudramas.  Maybe he could point you in the right direction.
Herb

How about a documentary about the development of different engines.  No,
wait.  Robbie Coltrane did that too.
Perhaps we're all biased.  Every one of us subscribing to this list would
love to see  a 6 hour documentary marathon on rotary powered homebuilts.
Heck, I'd buy a super gigantic flat screen HDTV, a TIVO to watch it again an
again, and give the pizza guy a key to the front door so I wouldn't have to
get up.  But it's like staring at pictures of your own kids all day long
when they just look like any other baby to someone else.  What mother
doesn't love that shriveled pink prune of a newborn?  Same applies here.
Its like taking a straw poll at the Democratic Convention.
Of course, I'd have said the same thing about the guys in NY who build
choppers.  But that turned out brilliantly!  They have a huge audience of
bikers, builder wannabes and family therapists.  Monster Garage is another
winner.  Perhaps the mystique of a welder with tatoos is stronger than
Neilson or Arbatron ever imagined.
Also, Junk Yard Wars was a huge success.  Who WOULDN'T want to do that?
Talk about fantasy TV!  Rummage in a junkyard, build cool things and get
paid to do it!!  (A quick insert: I've gotten a bit older now.  My TV
fantasies have shifted away from ogling Daisy Duke and have moved toward the
notion of doing 90mph down I-70  in the General Lee - this is usually a rush
hour fantasy.  Other rush hour fantasies involve flame throwers and
ray-guns.)
Anyway, perhaps an amalgam of ideas would work.
Junk Yard Wings - where guys raid cars, build airplanes and... you get the
idea.
Or
Extreme Homebuilt Makeovers - old engines get new lives, etc!

Yeah.  Count me in. I'd love to help on something like that. I can weld, but
I don't have any tatoos.
Kevin in Denver

 
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