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Would it be possible to talk the owner into changing the prop and getting
another
pilot for another few runs. It's obvious that this plane hasn't come close
to
reaching its potential. I have said before here that I believe the pilot was
not the
one for the job. Maybe now others will agree. I've talked to several old
time pilots
about the TTC record. They just don't seem to be as impressed with it as
they are
with Lyle Shelton's unofficial record. If it actually beat Lyle Shelton's
unofficial
run, they would take it seriously. The TTC is really not completely
developed. It
needs a few tweaks and a pilot up to the task. People like air and space
magazine may
not understand Newtonian physics but they do understand how to sell
magazine's.
Beating Lyle Shelton's unofficial run will wake them up along with the rest
of the
aviation world. The plane is so close. Seems a shame to park it in a museum
before it
is ready to go there
Paul Shamlian
The original sponsor Russ Macfarland is senile or mentally affected. His
son who has
been managing the
program could care less about light aircraft or rotary engines. In essence
the
money so far spent has come
out of his potential inheritance. Russ wanted the successful TTC airplane to
end up
in the EAA museum.
I don't know if that is going to occur. If it does not It might be possible
to buy it.
I agree it has some potential to set some altitude records.
Paul Lamar
Paul,
Maybe you should contact the Red Bull people. I don't know them but I may
have some contacts that do. This is the kind of thing they would sponsor
like Felix Baumgartner's jump from that balloon. A lot of the gondola's
fabrication work was done here in the Antelope Valley.
Steve Brazil
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