Jerry -

I don't think my airplane is on the Rite Angle website.  My airplane is not yet completed and besides, I am installing Jim Frantz's AOA Pro system.

I know I *should* be done by now -- I've only had the "Super Fast Build" kit for just shy of ten years -- but I'm still about 18 months away.  (I remember driving home with the kit when Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding were duking it out in the Olympics.  Anyone else remember that far back?)

My experience is primarily in Cessna 150's and 172s.  I expect quite a change when the 360 is flying.  However, I can usually tell by the sound how fast the airplane is going so I'm not sure why the airspeed indicator is required for safe (not "precise") flight.  I also have about 40 hours in the back of T-38s and in those airplanes, you have absolutely no idea based on sound how fast you're going.  Having said all that, I absolutely agree that sliding off the end of a runway at 30 knots and walking away is far, far, far preferred over stalling out at 50 feet.  In both cases the airplane will be toast, but in the first case you can walk away to build again.  It must be tough to say "I'll intentionally trash this airplane in order to survive" but with milliseconds to decide, I gotta think that Ron made the right call.  He wasn't sure he could fly but he was positive that he could walk away if he aborted.  That's the kind of pilot I want to fly with.

- Rob Wolf