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Bill and Linda
Thanks for all the wonderful hospitality and your hosting of the Rotor-Fest. Erna and I both had a great time. Thanks also for the excellent photos and the videos. It was good to connect faces with some of the names I have been seeing on the net for the last three plus years, and a real learning experience. We certainly enjoyed staying with Martin and Claudia. I knew that their faces were familiar, but didn't make the connection until they mentioned assisting at the Avery booth at OSH. We spent the rest of Sunday and Monday morning with my brother in Dallas and arrived home Monday evening.
Best Regards
Dean and Erna Van Winkle
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Eslick" <n268bl@charter.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:26 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Mid-winter Rotor-Fest Recap
Many thanks to all of you who attended the Mid-Winter Rotor-Fest 06. You made this event a pleasure for all of us!
Total number attending varied by the hour, but around 35 "rotor-heads" were here at one time or another. Friday night supper saw 43 meals served, as far as we can tell. At the EAA meeting, we counted 80 heads!
Tracy, Ed Anderson, and Charlie England were hunkered down in Jackson, MS Friday night while the front passed over, and arrived in a 3-ship by noon on Saturday. We had attendees from eight states.
Thanks to all those who brought "show and tell". Doug Dempsey stepped up when Tracy was delayed and presented his paper on cooling considerations at the EAA meeting. Tracy gave us an update on the EC and EM software and lots of other subjects. Ed Anderson brought his fuel monitor and AOA display, and Mark Steitle showed his fire detector unit. I am BEGGING Ed and Mark to let us see a schematic, parts list, etc. for these units! Bobby Hughs (forgive me if I have the name wrong) brought his in-progress intake manifold and supercharger for his RV-10 Renesis installation.
Saturday included close to 14 straight hours of "interactive education". Sat. evening, we had Jason's 6A-13B and Tracy's 4-Renesis both in the hangar for all to see. Jason Huchison had his new installation nearly ready to run, and after finding a sloppy solder joint (on a mod he did to Tracy's controller when he re-located the mixture knob), everything fired up perfectly Sunday morning.
Special thanks to all my airpark neighbors who kept calling to volunteer beds for all the attendees! We had way more volunteers than we could use, and everyone had a hangar in which to park! Is this a great country, or what!
Thanks to Buly and Doris and Jason for helping clean up. My wife Linda did a superb job of providing meals, with help from the other ladies in attendance. Apologies to Ed for the water hose to the trailer freezing up Saturday night. It was 24 F at sunrise!
One last thing. I have a much improved estimate of your navigational abilities. Not one single person had to call for directions!
I have posted some photos of the action to include video of Jason's first start, and comparative video/audio of Tracy and Ed.
Bill Eslick
www.weslick.com/rotorfest.htm
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