"wingsnaprop" wrote in message
ups.com...
All Valid Points. But, build a better mousetrap, ect.......... and,
What would be your thoughts if Lycoming bought them ? Could happen.


I would prefer that just about any large company buy them other than
Lycoming, but Lycoming will do. Unfortunately, these types of deals rarely
happen because the inventor of the "better mousetrap" has no idea how little
the thing is really worth.

The only chance to get a bid out of Lycoming is to let it slip that someone
else (that they feel threatened by) is bidding. Still, those guys are so
conservative, it would take another decade for them to bring it to market.

Take Theilert/Centurion engines. Here is a better mousetrap that could
easily sell $12M worth in the next year if they could just set up a support
network for the US. Likely, the 12M would increase exponentially over the
next 5 years to over $200M. For some reason, the support network isn't
there, and reportedly, Frank wanted an ungodly sum for the aviation part of
his company when investors called. I can't get anyone to tell me what the
real bugaboo is, but it sounds like a lot finger pointing about who should
be responsible for the support.

Hell, they could probably take whatever it costs to build the support
network, double it, and add it to the price of the engines and hardly see a
drop in demand.