Hey guys...don't you think this DP bashing has gone far enough. As the old saying goes...Don't be so quick to criticize until you've walked a mile in his shoes.
You really don't know his business circumstances, so your idle speculation is meaningless, and the negative comments are simply mean spirited.
Aside from his model business...Dave Patrick remains one of the premier airplane designers this sport has ever known. Add to that, the flying competitions that he has won over the many years and you get to see a much more balanced picture of the man. I think he's enormously well qualified to write a column in any periodical, and we are fortunate to have such a resource still available to us.
CJ