X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao11.cox.net ([68.230.241.28] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 991744 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:28:30 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.28; envelope-from=ALVentures@cox.net Received: from BigAl ([68.7.14.39]) by fed1rmmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060220162606.DJRR6244.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@BigAl> for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:26:06 -0500 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Paint job Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:27:49 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c6363a$96e98fd0$6400a8c0@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C635F7.88C899C0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C635F7.88C899C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Paint job =20 Look great, Al=20 You now have your Silver "Bullet". Amazing how much just the paint and materials cost to cover even a small aircraft. Are we going to see you = at Sun & Fun this year - looks complete to me? Ed=20 Thanks, Ed. Although I'd love to be able to fly it to Sun & Fun; it = won't be ready for an across the country flight that soon. Right now other = things will take my time, so it won't get to the airport for about a month. = Then there are the various checkouts and FAA inspection; and we never know = how long it takes to fly off 40 hours on an experimental. And you're right = about the cost. The cost of the paint seems to go up by about 50% a year. I = have about $1500 into paint and supplies for the job; double what I had estimated. =20 Al; That really looks great. Is that $90.00 an hour for 100 hrs, or $100.00 an hour for 90 hours? JohnD =20 Yeah; I'd take either one of those. Even starting from the point of = being in 'final' primer, my log shows a bit more than 200 hours to get the job done. =20 Have followed your progress for several years and look forward to = hearing that you are in the air !! Kelly Troyer=20 =20 That's the final 'proof of the pudding' isn't it. I'm sure looking = forward to getting this thing in the air too. =20 Al ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C635F7.88C899C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Paint job

Look great, = Al

You now have your Silver "Bullet". Amazing how much just the paint and materials = cost to cover even a small aircraft. Are we going to see you at Sun = & Fun this year - looks complete to me?

Ed

Thanks, Ed. Although I’d = love to be able to fly it to Sun & Fun; it won’t be ready for an = across the country flight that soon. Right now other things will take my time, so it = won’t get to the airport for about a month. Then there are the various checkouts and FAA inspection; and we never know how long it takes to fly = off 40 hours on an experimental. And you’re right about the cost. = The cost of the paint seems to go up by about 50% a year. I have about = $1500 into paint and supplies for the job; double what I had = estimated.

Al; That really looks great. Is that = $90.00 an hour for 100 hrs, or $100.00 an hour for 90 hours? = JohnD

Yeah; I’d take either one = of those. Even starting from the point of being in = ‘final’ primer, my log shows a bit more than 200 hours to get the job = done.

Have followed your progress for several years and look forward = to hearing that you are in the air = !! Kelly Troyer

That’s the final = ‘proof of the pudding’ isn’t it. I’m sure looking forward = to getting this thing in the air too.

Al

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