Barnyard BOb - wrote in message . ..
(Jim-Ed Browne) wrote:

It would be exceedingly rare for any pilot with many thousands of
hours experience, like myself, to endorse your warped & cavalier view.

Ever wonder why?

Steve Wittman and Dave Blanton both flew auto engines very
successfully for a lot of hours, both being past middle age when they
started with thousands of flight hours. Steve was killed with his much
younger wife behind a Lycoming-although there's no evidence it was
anything to do with the engine, indeed, it's a mystery to this day-and
Dave died of old age. They were both _experimenters_, but safe and
methodical ones, the kind that made aviation in the first place and
then experimental sport aviation possible.
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You continue to demonstrate a terminal case of dumb ass.
You wouldn't know "safe and methodical" if it bit you in the butt.
Read the current posts and comments about Blanton and Wittman.
Both these guys are classic extremes of how dumb luck can rule!
Blanton survived in spite of himself while Wittman died because of
himself. Where do you fit in? Do you possess the genius of these
two men? If so, you have a 50/50 chance of being a fatality.

When all the smoke clears, only a few of the very best auto
conversions will get within spitting distance of the performance
and reliably offered by Lycoming and Continental on an every
day basis. Home brewed auto conversions have been long on
promise and short on delivery since the Ford Model A engine.
Little has occurred since to warrant greater success for the masses.
Especially, today, when aviation insurances companies are loath to
insure auto conversion power in aircraft. Nothing like negative stats
to put the insurance industry in a tailspin. [Pardon the pun.]

As has been already stated, I am not against auto conversions.....
just jerks like you that promote them so ignorantly, wrong headedly
and cavalierly.


Barnyard BOb - experimental builder/pilot before you were born?

Hey BLOb, we are all still waiting for you post some pics of the
homebuilt you bought, read { you did not build yourself} and
supposably fly. Are ya gonna prove you are for real or just a keyboard
pilot. It's an easy thing to do, simply send Jay a few pics to his
alexis park inn site and he will post them. That is if you know how to
use a digital camera. All of us building EXPERIMENTAL planes will
leave you alone to yourself and your handful of supporters. I, for one
am betting there is no plane in your hanger, Please prove me wrong.. I
have to admit you are very well spoken and seem educated, it's just
you are in the wrong newsgroup whinning about HOMEBUILT planes powered
by alternative engines. I got an idea, why don't you take all your
skills and start a rec. aviation. Lycoming group. Ok BLOb, it's your
move...

Yours truly. Ben Haas