Great article on our TTC project on page 80 and 81  in the August issue of Flying magazine by Peter Garrison. Peter writes two articles every month.

For those of you that don't know Peter.

"In 1968–1973, while living in Tarzana, California, he designed and built an all-metal, two-seat, single-engine low-wing monoplane. The design was influenced by the T-18 of John Thorp and the PL-2 of Ladislao Pazmany, both California airplane designer/builders. Garrison called the plane Melmoth after an 1820 Gothic novel, Melmoth the Wanderer. It was notable for unusually long range and for Mr. Garrison's lack of academic qualifications for designing it. With his companion, television documentary producer Nancy Salter, Mr. Garrison used the aircraft to fly to Europe, Japan and South America. The 1976 Pacific crossing was the first nonstop flight from the United States to Japan by a homebuilt aircraft."


Peter came up with a humorous way of describing piston engines.
"an army of bits and pieces jumping back and fourth in an oily blur" ROLF

As far as the rotary is concerned.

"As the rotor turns   these voids grow and shrink compressing and expanding
their contents in the same way a four cycle piston engine's cylinders do."

Good description.

For those of you over seas that do not have access to Flying I will scan
it when I get back home at SZP.


I had a good turn out at the  OSH forum despite the schedule at 8;30 AM.
My guess is 50 people plus or minus 10. It almost filled Stage 4 which is a half
size stage.

Ironically the first person I ran into at OSH was my cute (no beautiful and smart)  female guide
at Scaled in Mojave when I gave a forum at Scaled on the TTC project.

Paul Lamar

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