X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.101] (HELO ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 621921 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:30:46 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.101; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.10] (cpe-066-057-036-199.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.36.199]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j722Txl8017174 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:30:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42EEDAA7.9080502@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:29:59 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Time to move on- RV-3 sale References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Russell Duffy wrote: > Greetings, > > I've put a lot of thought into this, and believe it's time to sell the > RV-3. I originally purchased it, because it was inexpensive, and > would allow me to test the rotary engine without any significant loss > of money in resale. It was never meant to be the plane of my dreams, > for all eternity, etc, so I think I've taken it about as far as I care > to. Also, I've never kept any project, car or plane, longer than > this, so it's time to move on. > A huge sigh of relief is heard from the Van's Aircraft Factories. I say you put the BUC back on and offer it to the Smithsonian. They have a place there for truly unique and really strange airplanes, don't they? -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."