Dana Overall wrote: > ... I am too good a friend with Mark Langford not to be > able to see his distrust, Mark and I will remain friends, but it should have > stopped there. I did not call engineers sleeze-balls or whatever profession > Mr. Cable is proud to claim as his stake in life.
I'm not sure exactly what this means, but I don't know that there's anybody on KRnet that I distrust, especially Dana. I haven't had my feathers ruffled in any way with this thread, and hope that Dana doesn't think that I'm hacked off at him. This thread shed some light on all aspects of the liability issue, and I think we all left it with a better understanding of both sides of the issue. One thing I WILL say for this thread is that it cost me a propeller. A KRnetter had carefully engineered and BUILT a propeller for my specific engine, airplane, and cruise speed, with the intention of developing a prop that Corvair powered KR could use, and now that this liability issue has come up, he's decided NOT to ship it to me due to liability concerns! Still, I'm not mad at anybody, it's just "one of those things that happens". I guess I deserved it though, considering I've cut a lot of folks off with the demise of TET. I would be the LAST person on earth to sue anybody over something like a propeller, but like Dana said, there's nothing to prevent the heirs of the family that my plane crash kills from suing the guy that made the propeller (think John Denver). I don't think Scott was talking about Dana (he's not a practicing lawyer, doesn't advertise, and isn't a sleezeball), but apparently it struck a nerve somewhere. The one thing we should all take from this exchange is that you never know how somebody's going to interpret your comments, so do your best to put a nice face them. And that doesn't mean cut somebody to the bone and then stick a smiley face on the end (the guy that used to do that has been off the list for years). We ALL suffer when we lose good people like Dana... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL mailto:langf...@hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
