Originally Posted by
ECHO24
On the announcement on Facebook, below the header it says "Paid Partnership" which links to "About brands, advertisers, marketer or sponsors". I think it's only an affiliate deal with Van's Aircraft.
Back then Dick VansGrunsven was selling a few dozen kits a year. Van's Aircraft is a big company now. I would be interested to meet him again but wouldn't show up at corporate and ask if he remembers me flying in at the farm.
Van's Aircraft home page has a counter of how many planes have been completed, 11,259. That's 14 times the number Rutan Vari EZ / Long EZs completed, a pretty successful homebuilt.
I’ve decided not to attend the Flite Test/Van’s event. I reached out to the club through their web page asking about qualifying aircraft and got a response that the “ media “ person was on travel and had no details. No info given to contact anyone else. Given that one of my clubs is having an end of year BBQ on the same day, I’m opting for that.