REFLECTOR: Membership Roster

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Tue Jun 9 12:50:53 CDT 2009


In response to "It must be nice to be rich", the correct answer is "Yep".  
Saves a lot of BS discussion.
 
Bob Wood
 
 
In a message dated 6/9/2009 11:54:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
amillin at sbcglobal.net writes:

I went  to Rough River last year.  Waiting for Brett and Beth to show up.   
:)

That was my first encounter with Canard Class Discrimination.   It was 
pretty
heavy handed at times.

As soon as I mentioned I was  building a Velocity the reply was "It must be
nice to be rich."  Then  they went into how I "snapped the airplane together
instead of actually  building it."

It was amazing...

Andy

-----Original  Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org  [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Alex Balic
Sent:  06-09-2009 10:12
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders  list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Membership Roster

Yea- I get that from  the EZ guys at my field- although they somehow have
fully accepted the  local Burkut builder- probably because the design is so
similar.  I  gain some favor because I did not get any fast build options so
I usually  start the conversations with how tough it was (not) to get the
foam cores  lined up and sanded on the wings, then they counter with how 
easy
it must  have been to just glue 2 fuselage halves together.....   

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org  [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent:  Friday, June 05, 2009 8:19 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders  list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Membership Roster

I would add that  there is a not so subtle class system within the EZ
crowd, with Velocity's  at the bottom.

What did we do wrong in their log filled  eyes?

1.) We are flying an airplane Rutan said, "would not fly", Maher  proved
him wrong and did it any way.  At least thats the  story.

2.) Its a "no don't say it!",  kit plane.  Real  canards are plans built.

3.) Velocity's sell(turn over) more than EZ's,  so there is a perceived
higher percentage of bought Velocity's.  A  good number of these bought
Velocity's are owned by people with have an  avid interest in flying and
not much in building.  How could  they?

Scott

PS. Boy would this message get some traction on  the
rec.aviation.homebuilt  news group!   I'd have to put on  my Nomex suit!

vance atkinson wrote:
> Lou Stedman  wrote:
>> After reading Al's posting about his missing door incident,  I was
>> curious about where he was located. I pulled out my trusty  Central
>> States Association membership roster, assuming that most  canard
>> builders and flyers were members. To my surprise, I found  only eleven
>> Velocity owners listed out of 789 members. My question  is why? I have
>> been a member since I got my Long EZ about ten  years ago and find it
>> to be a wonderful asset when rebuilding some  particular part of our
>> canard aircraft. I look forward to the  quarterly publication which
>> comes out full of building tips and  articles so dear to we
>> experimental nuts. One of the other things  I find invaluable is the
>> annual membership roster that comes out  in January with everyone's
>> name and contact information. I keep in  my aircraft so that I can
>> look up fellow canardians whenever I  visit anew area. I am fairly new
>> to the Velocity Group so I may  not be aware but is there something
>> similar to this with fellow  Velocity owners. If not I would encourage
>> all to become a member  of CSA. Contact information is
>> jschubert at juno.com  <mailto:jschubert at juno.com>. The other choice
>> would be to  make up our own Velocity membership roster and I would be
>> happy to  get involved in this.
>>  
>>  
>> Lou  Stedman
>> Velocity N7044Q
>> Olean, NY
> Lou... Ive  found in general that the Velo crowd does less tinkering
> than the "EZ"  crowd does.  and a lot more Velos were built by others
> rather  than the owner.  They tend to spend money on things for fixes
>  rather than come up with a cheap homemade solution. 
> The above is  applied in general to their population.
>
> vance atkinson
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