Subject: Conversation at SZP
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 1/2/2008, 5:56 PM
To: AARotary Engine



     >
     >> > Hi, George Lazik
     >> >
     >> > These are the people that have 2400 hours on the Mazda
     >> > rotary I think.
     >> >
     >> > http://intech2000.miamisci.org/trainee/BOrtmayer/
     >> >
     >> > Maybe Gary Buster can confirm this.
     >> > --
     >> > Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
     >>
     >>
     >> Happy New Year George and Paul... et al!!
     >>
     >> This email has a ton of apples and oranges mixed together in the
    pics!!
     >>
     >> The first pic is the advertisement for Bill Ortmeyer's training
    stuff.  I
     >> haven't been conversing with Bill Ortmeyer for a few years...
    but he's
     >> such an anal retentive teacher that keeps meticulous books...  It
     >> wouldn't
     >> suprise me at all if he's got the 2400 hours on his ship... Bill's
     >> original ship was built by Bill Parsons... Bill O isn't an intuitive
     >> wankle rotor
     >> head in his heart... he's one to buy someone else's time/
    expertise to
     >> diagnose and fix his engine instead of intuitively knowing what
    is/was
     >> happening.  I have NO idea of the source of Bill Parson's
    rotarys.  Even
     >> Bill Ortmeyer didn't know who sourced his engine when Bill Parsons
     >> purchased it!!
     >>
     >> The second and third pic is of Steve McGowan of Georgia in his
    "Black
     >> Beauty".  He's been running 13b's from Atkins since I was
    introduced to
     >> him in '96.  Steve easily has over 3000 hours on his beast!
     >>
     >> The fourth pic is of MY proof flight with Russ (somebody) in
    Wauchula
     >> florida... no one believed I had the horsepower to get 700 lbs
    useful
     >> load
     >> into the air!!  The ship was the first 12a I owned... built by Bill
     >> Parsons himself!!  Steve McGowan's Black Beauty was a twin to
    this ship!
     >>
     >> The fifth and sixth pics are of my own "Testosterone Baby"
    Aircommand
     >> tandem I built... It was a significantly bridgeported 12a dyno'd
    at 219
     >> hp at
     >> 7500 rpm.  My oh my!!!  That bird could chase down the local
     >> helicopters!!!
     >>  We'd run the creeks and valleys with a few friends in their
    bells and
     >> Hughes
     >> ships.... and I'd always be able to loose them, or catch them in a
     >> heartbeat!!!  That was WAY too much fun!!
     >>
     >> Thanks for the trip down amnesia lane!!
     >>
     >> Gary Buster
     >> N263GB
     >> Tyler Texas
     >
     > Gary,
     >
     > So what are you flying now?  What happened to the gyro?
     >
     > Mark S.
     > Austin, Tx


    Hey Mark.... Happy New Year to the forum!!

    The first ships were traded back and forth to accomplish bucks in
    the bank!!
    The last 12a was sold back to me and then sold to a gent here on the
    forum
    to put into his tugboat on the northwest coast.  The divorce system
    got the
    last ship!!

    Currently I'm flying a lycosaur Tri-pacer and just purchased another
    gyroplane project.  The tandem gyro already has a heart of subaru
    EJ25 that
    I'll consider using for a bit.  My deepest desire is to cash flow the
    engine/ psru/ 4 blade warp drive to someone else so I can get the
    peripheral
    port Renesis I really want into the ship!!  If you know someone
    needing a
    complete and proven subaru package, let me know!!  Even so, THIS tandem
    isn't my life's dream gyro ship... someday I'll make the tractor
    design I've
    got in my mind... so if someone is needing my tandem more than
    me...!!!....

    Blessings and safe flying to all!!  Happy New Year!

    Gary Buster
    Tyler Texas


Gary,

It sounds like you're staying busy.  Gyros seem like they would be a
real blast to fly.  I live an hour from the airport where my plane is
kept and I've often dreamed about having a Gyro to fly back and forth.
Knowing me, I would spend all my time flying the gyro and the "mother
ship" would turn into a hangar queen.  ;-)  Maybe, some day. But right
now, I need to get the Lancair finished.

Mark S.
20.5 hrs


Do you ever make any of the rotary gatherings?  I'm looking forward to
meeting you some day.


Mark, if your going to Sun n Fun this year go a few days early and hit
the Bensen Days gyro plane fly in at Wachula Fl. I go just about every year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw12b5ON5x8
http://www.eaa1192.com/news.php
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Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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