X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.164] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 952500 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 22 May 2005 01:07:34 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.164; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.72]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A413642D1 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 05:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.164]) by filter05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.72]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04214-12-30 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 05:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-69-152.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.69.152]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593A93640B3 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 05:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <429013E2.2070700@frontiernet.net> Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 00:08:50 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Quality Assurance / Peer Review ( was: Re: Seized 13b ...) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0520-4, 05/20/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net I think a very important document is a list of all the stuff that DOESN'T WORK. With detailed descriptions of stuff that didn't work (like Paul's original fuel system), the reason it didn't work, and some ways to fix it.
Guess we'll need a web site where we could post all this important info ... Jim S.

John Slade wrote:

a "checklist" and make it available to the builder long
before the team might be called to inspect.
That's an important point. We make a lot of decisions as we go along, many of which are expensive and / or very time consuming. The resistance to change increases (reasonably) the closer we get to being done. Guidance is needed along the way, not just the day before first flight.