Bob, I wasn't trying to bash you either. The great thing about this KR forum is we can ALL talk about our experiences, good bad and UGLY and benefit from it. We've all had them.
I honestly believe we are ALL ambassadors to our craft, it is our responsibility and I make it an honor to introduce others to our endeavors. With out that our sport will die. With it and we can continue to build and fly what we like. If the Wright brothers had to build to certain standard we wouldn't be here talking about building ourselves, so if that means someone wants to try something new, and Like you said, investigate, test and prove it's worthiness than by all means let them. It needs to be done scientifically to prove it's validity but when it works it only betters our sport. If Bernie Peitenpol hadn't played around with Corvairs a lot of guys would never think of using them in our KR's. Thank you ruffling my feathers today and letting me get on my soapbox. Hahaha. I won't be at the gathering this year but I hope to be flying to next years so I convince everybody to have one out west here and hope to meet you. Let's get some of the flatlanders to learn high altitude landings and takeoffs. Hahaha. Thanks Bob! Fred Johnson Product Manager T.E. West, LLC. -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of bearlk...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:53 PM To: kr...@mylist.net Subject: Re: KR> COMMON BUILDING PRACTICES Fred, I was not bashing experimenters, but defending responsible experimentation. I have seen abandonded projects that never flew because poor technique added up to obvious disaster. The planes that end up flying fly because the builders did good defendable work. Bob Polgreen _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html