All, We were very happy to host Mr. Wright and his very beautiful and historically significant H-1 at the Golden West Fly-in this year. The loss of this gifted man and the great airplane that he crafted is truly sad and a signiifcant loss to the aviation family.
I have worked with Martin Hollmann both on the Fly-in and some other projects, and I can assure you that he is a rabid evangelist about flutter testing and safety. I would view his press release as much more of a sermon than an advertisement. Todd Servaes KR-2S Aggie lewanda wrote: >Brian, > >First, my sincere condolences to the Wright family. > >I am president of a local non-profit ballroom dance association. >I was criticized recently for allowing announcements to be made >at dances by people who were selling something for money. I am >not paid and have no financial interest in any of the products or >services in question. > >My reply was that a certain person who owns the building where we dance >is making money renting us space. Another person is paid to be our D.J. >A third person makes money giving dance lessons. A fourth person >makes money selling dance shoes. Now, if all of these fine decent >folks did something else for a living and made no money off ballroom >dancing; then my wife and I would not know how to dance and there would >be no place in town to do so anyway. > >I believe the same principle applies to things in the aviation world. >I am a capitalist with no apologies for free enterprise. It makes our >modern lifestyle possible. Anyone in business who is successful and >offers a good product or service is going to have pride in what they >have to offer and will naturally mention it in conversation. > >This list constantly discusses name brand products, companies that sell >things, people who offer services. I see this as mutually beneficial to >all concerned. Helps with a wide variety of things like safety, keeping >costs down and telling each other where to find needed things. The article >quoted below did not seem overly commercial to me and certainly evidenced >genuine remorse over the accident and tragic loss of life. > >I guess it is clearly possible for someone to genuinely be offended by >something when the other person sincerely meant no offense. My own take >was not that the article was any grab for money as much as a genuine >desire to increase safety and prevent future loss of life. > >Respectfully, > >Dean Allen >--- Brian Kraut <eng...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >>I normally don't stir things up on mailing lists, but am I the only one >>that is offended by this very blatant use of someone's tragic death only >>five days ago to advertise a service? The early reports of the crash >>that I have seen so far don't even hint at a flutter problem. This >>comes from a mailing list from Martin Hollmann,s company. >> >>Very sad to hear of this crash. I have been following the progress on >>that plane for a while and it was one of the most beautiful planes I >>have ever see. James Wright obviously poured his heart and soul into it >>and it is a shame to see him and the plane gone. >> >>-------- Original Message -------- >>Subject: Aviation News >>Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:54:56 -0700 >>From: Aircraft Designs, Inc. <aircr...@mbay.net> >>Reply-To: <16172-feedback...@lb.bcentral.com> >>To: List Member <eng...@earthlink.net> >> >> >> >> >>NEWS RELEASE 2.4 August 2003 >>Aircraft Designs, Inc. >> >>Hughes H-1B Racer crash could most likely have been avoided. >>It is with great sadness that I heard about the death of James Wright, a >>tall and friendly aviator who I had gotten to know. He crashed on August >>4th in his H-1B Racer on the way back from Oshkosh. I had talked to Jim >>many times about performing a flutter analysis on his racer and he was >>very interested. The aircraft had heavy, fabric covered control surfaces >>which were not mass balanced and it would have been very prudent to find >>out what the critical flutter speed is. When I did not hear from Jim, I >>had a terrible feeling that he would die in his beautiful aircraft. In >>retrospect, the $4,000 that I charge to perform this valuable service >>would have been worth it. For more information see >>www.wrightools.com/hughes/ <http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >> > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > >
