REFLECTOR: Performance challenge, Chap. 2

[J.P. Brooks]

Will do.  I need to take the 4 year old daughter and 7 year old son to 
"LegoLand" in Carlsbad.  Be glad to finally show 211 and let her speak for 
herself.


At 02:39 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote:
>JP, when you finally make that flight into New Mexico, why not continue
>on to Southern California.  We'll promise you a good meal and in-hanger
>protection when you land at Ramona.  We'll even give you a ride into
>Escondido.
>
>Bill Schweitzer
>90% done, 50% to go
>Std RGE, plumbed for Delta Hawk
>Ramona, Ca
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
>Behalf Of J.P. Brooks
>Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:34 PM
>To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
>Subject: REFLECTOR: Performance challenge, Chap. 2
>
>
>Gentlemen,
>
>Let's see, how does one eat a 900 lb Crow?.......
>One bite at a time?
>
>1st bite,.....  Thanks to those we got to meet with at OSH, The Swings,
>Scott, missed Nathan.....  (that one was easy)...
>
>2nd bite....  We are in ongoing testing and have experienced very good
>results.  I'll let Doug and Diane speak for the company, but, as for me,
>I
>must take your blows and suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune in
>being unable to get 211JP in time for the promised (and soon to be
>missed)
>Sept. 1st said time frame.  (okay guys.....  let the emails fly! I got
>my
>ego Kevlar body armor on every time I step up to my computer.  (I'm
>still
>chewing on that bite like an old piece of untenderized horse meet!)
>
>bite 3.... whence I do get Doug to give me "The Bird" (no not the middle
>
>appendage) I will post rational haste and make my first priority to be
>there in New Mexico for the salvage operation which will be to find my
>credibility somewhere off the end of the runway at very hot, high
>density,
>no wind airspace in which I will find my smiling face again.  (Okay,
>still
>got the body armour on...  let go with another volley!).........
>
>(bite 4 and still chewing)......  I know this company and it's
>people.  Anyone who has seen us, met us, heard us, know that it is
>usually
>me, JP, who sez something and THEN engages brain.....
>I hope my boasting and pride is just that .... mine.  I ask you not
>direct
>any of the well deserved arrows at DeltaHawk but at me, since my mouth
>is
>the culprit........(he said with humble regard)
>
>I know Diane and Doug will read this and they know I say things without
>filter from them.  Again, this is the fighter pilot ego engaging prior
>to
>the self-destruct mode goes into final countdown....
>
>.....yes, lesson learned,..... once more and when I do get the chance to
>
>come out  to New Mexico there will be a "Notamus Maximus" put out that
>the
>Bird is enroute.  All will get a shot at me on the way and I'll have the
>
>Clocking Device fully engaged till then.
>
>It is with humility that I be a member of this forum.  It is with equal
>humility that I know I look up to all of you who are building, planning,
>
>engineering, and endeavoring to get to the point of First Flight.
>Believe
>me when I say that FF of 211JP was an event.  I was unfortunately, or
>fortunately, depending on your perspective, unable to be there on May
>3rd
>of last year to see 211JP take flight.  For those of you who do know me
>my
>daughters christening in Escondido, California was scheduled for that
>day
>long before.  Diane and Doug we willing to postpone the flight till I
>could
>be there.  I believed it was an event that was not defined by a single
>individual but by a collective effort.  We all shared in the elation
>regardless where we were in the world.
>
>So, with all this said, I ask humbly your indulgence and patience as we
>accomplish more testing toward the end result of going forward toward
>certification and beyond.
>
>I will gladly accept, without anger, any comments you may freely air
>here.  Now, anybody got any salsa?...  these feather get caught in my
>throat pretty easily!
>
>JP
>DeltaHawk, Inc.
>N211JP
>DMO184, 173RG
>
>
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