Hi Pat,

I like to read ideas and opinion on all sides and aspects of aviation (that's why I subscribe!) and certainly never expect you or Contact! to stand behind all or any of the opinions printed there.  The market place of ideas has a way of sorting things out (except in politics which is hopeless : )

 

I've seen Bud's plane & redrive at various fly-ins and it looks like a well thought out piece of work.  It's just the 'my stuff is great and everything else is a death-trap'  that's hard to take.   But keep printing anything from people who demonstrate the ability to make alternative engines work.   The 'personality factor' is just part of life.  You do a great job considering the bunch of opinionated SOBs (that would be us)  you have to work with :>)

 

Tracy 

 

On 7/30/07, Patrick Panzera <Panzera@experimental-aviation.com> wrote:

 

Caution; trying to claim 100% right on either end of the spectrum can be equally wrong.

 

Thank you.

Bud is a very opinionated individual with (for the most part) the experience to back his opinions and it was extremely difficult to edit his article in our magazine as his article was full of highly opinionated claims as fact. Several statements I just took out, others I toned down. The thing is he has a successful design that brings a lot to the table.

Here's what I wrote in my editorial:

If it weren't for the diversity of ideas and opinions, we'd all be driving the same car and flying the same plane. Such is the case with automobile engine conversions for experimental aircraft. Direct drive, belted, chain or geared PSRU; pistons or rotors; two or four-stroke; water-cooled or air-cooled; inline, vee or horizontally-opposed; pushrod or overhead-cam; carburetor or fuel injection are all valid choices and no single one is substantially more superior than another for every application. That being said, our cover story features plenty of opinions that are expressed as fact and are not necessarily right or wrong and should be viewed as a well-qualified opinion, based on actual successful experience, but an opinion none-the-less.

 

Pat

Editor@ContactMagazine.com