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Old 12-13-2005 | 12:44 AM
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pilotdude57
 
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Default RE: Glascat

The point is that Richard and friends were supposed to do whatever work was necessary to get it into the air with a turbine, and then I would concentrate on getting the production version to a deliverable quality with the highest possible customer satisfaction. At no time were they supposed to represent the aircraft to other people as "what you get". As a matter of fact I wanted them to tell people it was just a test model. Since I had not done a turbine model, and had only experience with prop planes dating back to the early 70's in Dayton, Ohio (Western Ohio Radio Control Society club with Don Lowe and Dave Brown) I wanted someone with turbine experience to do the conversion and necessary improvements and evaluation for necessary changes. They never finished the project. I admit it would have been more work than they probably anticipated, especially canopy mounting, but could be done. The aircraft could have been finished and done nicely and flown. The FAA owes me $135,000 in back pay and the other Air Traffic Controllers who got shafted in the pay conversion a few years ago have agreed to pay me a percentage of their back pay when we win in court, 'cause I paid for the lawsuit, so I wil get at least $70,000 from them. Then I will bring the model up to speed myself, unless I get 6 or 7 people who want to order now so I have money to hire another person to go into production. I have $2,000 worth of prepreg in the freezer and all the honeycomb and other material to finish about 40 kits. Since I had to quit my job to use part of my retirement fund to pay for the lawsuit I am low on money and just need a couple thousand to get into the 48x24 production facility. If there are any of you who would like to do a business partnership let me know. But now that Playboy is interested in doing the full-size aircraft I probably won't have to worry about money soon. Just who to hire.