Hi Paul
  It's been a while since I've been on your newsletter... Moving,
wedding, just keep forgetting to sign back up... but Perry ask me to
send some progress pictures of the MM that I have been working on for my
Long EZ.  It is mostly Perry's design (Thanks Perry) with a slight
redesign of the beam attachment for thrust vectoring.  I'm still working
on the linkage design to trim the engine but all in all it is turning
out real nice.  (Any Idea what kind of loads I'll see at the front of
the engine in flight... I still need to hook it all up and get the
weights of the three points and figure up the CG)  I attached a few
pictures and a drawing of the Thrust Mount for you guys to take a look
at, it will allow for 10 degrees of trim travel... Should be plenty.  I
have more pictures if anyone is interested.  I hope to complete the
integration by the end of July. Oh, can you add me back to the news
letter?

Regards,


Mike Collier
Electrical Sub-Systems
BCA Product Development

Interesting idea. Thrust vectoring eh?. Is this an attempt to get
a canard to rotate earlier? I'll bet Burt would really be interested
in this. Think about using a p-port for plenty of extra power.

Keep an Eye on the 1/2 inch plate beam. Aluminum is not as good
as 4130 when it comes to fatigue.

There is a moment around the rear rubber bushings due to thrust
so if you can do some over all side view dwgs with dimensions send
them to me and I will see if I can figure out the loads.