Tracy and all,

  Boy, I hoped more people than 15% were on the list, at least just lurking. There is so much to gained, and learned by listening and reading discussions on the list. I sure hope people don't end up making some of the mistakes that could have been avoided by being active on a list like this, and someone get hurt or worse as a result.
  I would not even consider a project like this with out this type of wealth of knowledge at my disposal. Just not worth the risk.

Ben

--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Tracy Crook <tracy@rotaryaviation.com> wrote:

> From: Tracy Crook <tracy@rotaryaviation.com>
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Stealthly rotary builder
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 8:46 PM
> His name is Sam Hodges.  I was
> surprised that I had never
> heard of him, so I did a search of the fly rotary list and
> found one reference
> to him by Doug Lomheim back in Jan of this year.  He is
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> customer of Tracy’s but has a lot of Tracy’s stuff
> installed.
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> Unfortunately, I have not kept the customer list up to date
> in years.  I would guess that less than 15% of customers
> are active on this list.  There are a lot of "lone
> rangers" out there.   For example, a grass farmer
> from Oregon (Marion Knox) made the first flight in his
> Renesis powered RV-6 a week or so ago. 
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> Tracy Crook
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM,
> Bryan Winberry <bryanwinberry@bellsouth.net>
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> From: Rotary motors in
> aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
> On
> Behalf Of Bill Bradburry
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> Sent:
> Tuesday, September 22, 2009
> 9:05 PM
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> To: Rotary
> motors in aircraft
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> Subject:
> [FlyRotary] Re: Stealthly
> rotary builder
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> TechWelding.  Looks like it
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> From: Rotary motors in
> aircraft
> [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
> On
> Behalf Of Bryan Winberry
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> Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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> To: Rotary
>  motors in aircraft
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> Subject:
> [FlyRotary] Re: Stealthly
> rotary builder
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> I have
> traded emails with him, but it has
> been a while.  I don’t know if these pics are still
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> From: Rotary motors in
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> On
> Behalf Of Bill Bradburry
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> Tuesday, September 22, 2009
> 7:13 PM
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> To: Rotary
>  motors in aircraft
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> [FlyRotary] Stealthly
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>  A friend just sent me a group of
> pictures of a really well built
> RV-9A with a rotary installation.  He has just done his
> first engine
> start.  His name is Sam Hodges.  I was surprised that I
> had never
> heard of him, so I did a search of the fly rotary list and
> found one reference
> to him by Doug Lomheim back in Jan of this year.  He is
> not listed as a
> customer of Tracy’s but has a lot of Tracy’s stuff
> installed.
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> Talk about your really good job
> without any input from the list!
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> I would like to see more of his
> plane so I hope someone who knows him
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