Return-Path: Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c1) with ESMTP id 721165 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:11:36 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.157.37; envelope-from=WRJJRS@aol.com Received: from WRJJRS@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.8.61ab7f21 (15899) for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:09:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from aol.com (mow-m03.webmail.aol.com [64.12.184.131]) by air-id09.mx.aol.com (v104.17) with ESMTP id MAILINID92-3e1b420970f32f5; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:09:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:09:55 -0500 From: WRJJRS@aol.com To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net ("Rotary motors in aircraft") Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Bad day at the airport MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4F9F6629.35B13296.00051B7E@aol.com> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 X-AOL-IP: 66.127.99.234 X-AOL-Language: english Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Have you ever noticed the tendency in the experimental aircraft community to suddenly run off in a completely new direction based on a single mishap? And this without ever really understanding what caused the problem to begin with. Just had to ask. Tracy Tracy, you have that sooooo right. Witness My previous post about checking the simple things first. To often we wander way to far down the path when a simple change would make all right. The Eliason is backward tech, it may work but never as well! This is like when the original Corvettes came out with FI and people would remove it since they didn't understand how it worked. They would often fix other problems when changing it out and then condem a good system. (only to go vainly looking for the system 20 years later when it beacame a "classic"! Bill Jepson