RE: looking for Reid Howell
Mike, I've left several messages for him over the last few weeks and they've gone un-returned. He lives about 7 miles from me, I can tell you that he moved into a new house a couple months ago and has been building a shop. I don't believe he comes on here any more.
I had his partner over for dinner last week, and it sounds like there may be some short term downtime in production, but I understand there are great things on the horizon. Don't know what your time frame is, but you might want to try to get in touch with Doug and Dan here in Austin. They are the resident experts in the YA Twin. They've built half a dozen or more of them and currently have at least 5 of them essentially ready to fly at their house as I saw them when I stopped by there last week.
Good Luck,
Sean