That's it. We need a blond bimbo to build a rotary powered
airplane and show up at OSH.
Paul Lamar
you joke and perhaps mock me(geez, it was an analogy, not a suggestion) all
advertising works thru either prestige or fear. you buy the new f-150
because it's the highest rated truck 20 years in a row (or whatever...) or
you buy the jetta because two guys just got T-boned and walked away from the
accident. my first reaction to seeing an airplane engine finally fail from
lack of coolant would be "why use a water cooled engine?" let's face it,
needing a water pump is hardly a selling point. when you break records
however, people remember. what if the climb record was beat by an average
guy without lycoming or mattituck sponsorship and he did it with a rotary?
FAR more positive approach. kevin
a well known "fact" of life. If an engine
races well, it must be good. Yes, I heard you groan, but there are at
least 3 -the BIG THREE- auto manufacturers who share this belief AKA-
the NASCAR series. My suggestion is to sift the sands on race beach and
look for a way to enter a competition and develop a way to fund it.
Putting a rotary powered aircraft on the flight line with a WIN ( or
even a place or show ) trophy in front of it will speak volumes to many.
This is how rotaries should get their recognition, what is lacking is
the organizer to achieve this result. Are you the person willing to
commit the time to pull together sponsors, builders, maybe an airframe
manufacturer to get a race winning rotary done? Lead or follow, but
don't just stand there with your water trickling out :)
Dave
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That's it. We need a blond bimbo to build a rotary powered
airplane and show up at OSH.
Paul Lamar
you joke and perhaps mock me(geez, it was an analogy, not a suggestion) all
advertising works thru either prestige or fear. you buy the new f-150
because it's the highest rated truck 20 years in a row (or whatever...) or
you buy the jetta because two guys just got T-boned and walked away from the
accident. my first reaction to seeing an airplane engine finally fail from
lack of coolant would be "why use a water cooled engine?" let's face it,
needing a water pump is hardly a selling point. when you break records
however, people remember. what if the climb record was beat by an average
guy without lycoming or mattituck sponsorship and he did it with a rotary?
FAR more positive approach. kevin
No not at all. I was serious. I totally agree with all your points.
Sorry to give that impression.
"why use a water cooled engine?" Exactly!
Actually the climb record was set by a rotary powered airplane.
Allan Tolle flying an Everette Hatch rotary in an RV.
Who knows where we would be today if Everette Hatch had not
died and Sun n Fun kept holding the races. Both time to climb
and the Sun 100. I probably would not have started this newsletter.
Paul Lamar ...Sexist Pig
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