REFLECTOR: Membership Roster

Brian Michalk michalk at awpi.com
Tue Jun 9 13:38:53 CDT 2009


Perhaps propose a corrolary to the original statement:
"It must be nice to be lazy."

Matt Bucko wrote:
> It is a shame. Life is too short to be so arrogant. No response was 
> probably best.
> Matt
>
> Andy Millin wrote:
>>
>> Didn’t really respond. I didn’t see any point. I was just disappointed.
>>
>> *From:* reflector-bounces at tvbf.org 
>> [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] *On Behalf Of *SlvEgl99 at aol.com
>> *Sent:* 06-09-2009 1:51
>> *To:* reflector at tvbf.org
>> *Subject:* Re: REFLECTOR: Membership Roster
>>
>> 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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