REFLECTOR: SWRFI

[David Staten]

Speaking for myself only, I hope to have Chris's and I's velocity on the 
ramp there next year.. If I cant make it, then perhaps he can.

When I went the past two years we had several canards grazing there.. 
and one velocity from SLC Utah. I didnt make it this year, and the 
velocity is in ground test mode for the auto conversion engine.

Dave

gattenby at tulsaconnect.com wrote:

>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?"
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>
>Noel
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>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
>>
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