>> > 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
   -
   Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.



Looks like fun, for sure!

Mark


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