REFLECTOR: SWRFI

[gattenby at tulsaconnect.com]

I made the Sat. portion...
Lots of RV's there.  Lots of "sport" aircraft there.
The canards made a poor showing.
The only Velocity was the Factory, and the only other 
canard
was an EZ that flew in about 1:00 pm.

I wore the Symposum T-Shirt, and got lots of comments.
"Nice plane, any of them here?"


Noel




On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:12:57 -0500
  "Douglas Holub" <doug.holub at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> I spent the day yesterday at the Southwest Regional 
>Fly-In in Hondo, Texas. I went there yesterday because I 
>figured it wouldn't be nearly as busy as it will be today 
>Saturday, and I wanted to be able to talk with the 
>vendors for a few undistracted minutes. When I was at 
>Oshkosh a few years ago, the vendors were so busy that I 
>wasn't even able to talk to some of them at all.
> 
> I was right. The sales people were doing a lot of 
>standing around wishing someone would stop by. I was able 
>to spend as much time as I needed to. Of interest to me:
> 
> 1. The P-Mag will be 10 - 32 volts later this summer. 
>It's 12 volts only, now.
> 
> 2. ECI's cold induction plenum can't be turned around 
>yet. The throttle body faces the propeller now. They're 
>working on a reverse mount, but it's not high on their 
>list of things to do. The engineer thought that the 
>geometry on a pusher doesn't lend itself to ram air, 
>anyway. At any rate, the new plenum will be retrofittable 
>with the sump and the intake pipes, so if I want to add 
>ram air later, I could always do that.
> 
> 3. The Dynon 10A has a 12 week lead time now, so I'd 
>better get in the queue.
> 
> One of the busier booths was Velocity's, though. They 
>had a gorgeous demonstrator with a turbo-charged IO-540 
>that will do 250 kts.  Whenever I would tell someone at 
>the show that I'm building a Velocity, they would say, 
>"cool airplane."
> 
> Scott Baker gave me a good piece of advice that made the 
>5 hour one-way drive worthwhile. If you're not very good 
>at sewing or upholstery or crafts, don't do your own 
>interior. The $3,000 you save in labor expense will 
>result in an airplane that is worth $15,000 less than it 
>would have been with a professional interior. Even though 
>the airplane may be designed and constructed very well, 
>if the interior looks "homemade", it doesn't inspire 
>confidence in passengers or potential new owners. If the 
>upholstery is not sewn straight and has frayed edges 
>showing, they wonder if you know how to install a main 
>spar, either. 
> 
> Back to building...
> 
> Doug Holub
> 
>