Just for everyones information the first Rotary powered a/c I saw in person and also
flyin in the mid 90's here in Oklahoma.........Ron's 13B was carburated with a HA-6
sidedraft carb used on 0-320 and 0-360 lycomings on Beech Musketeers at that time !!
-------------- Original message from "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>: --------------
Boy, is my face red, Perry. My only excuse is your long EZ just didn't look like a "normal" long EZ. For most of those 8 years, it had this "thing" affixed to the rear {:>).
My apologies for an embarrassing "senior moment" - you must stop lurking so much in order that my memory cells are get recharged more frequently.
By the way, saw Butch at Sun & Fun for a few minutes -he looked a bit stressed and overworked, ridden hard and put away wet. But, he has supposedly retired from that stressful "business" and hopefully will get his battery recharged.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:10 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Rotary Long-EZs do not exist
"I do not recall anyone with a rotary in a Long EZ since Al Gowan, so will be very interested in hearing about your success when you get it airborne."
Damn it Ed, how did you discover my hoax? Now you've exposed it to the whole world. So I have to come clean: I have not flown a rotary powered Long-EZ for the last 8 years.
My Long-EZ has a cold-fusion power cell fuel source, providing heat energy to a sterling engine to drive the propeller.
Perry