SAA vs. EAA

Jim, in light of your response, did you have to sign a waiver of
rights to the design that you submitted? It sounds as though that
might be what happened. Could you maybe "redesign" it so that it
would be marketable? I'm getting a really bad feeling about EAA in
it's present format.

Now, can anyone comment on the SAA?

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:23:53 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I'm sure if you wrote EAA and asked for "the AoA project that you screwed a
good designer out of" that they would be overjoyed to provide you a copy of
the design.

Jim

"David Bridgham" wrote in message
...
"RST Engineering" writes:

Another colleague of mine submitted a particularly clever electronic
angle
of attack indicator that could be made for peanuts.

I'm intrigued. Do you know if the information on this AoA indicator
system is available? Not that I'm not interested in your low fuel
detector as well.

-Dave

If you bottled EAA and the homebuilt aircraft movement circa 1960, put
it in a time capsule and brought it out today... that's kinda what SAA
would look like, except Paul Poberezny is looking a few years older
now.

It's very much a "throwback to the good ol' days" kind of club and
there's nothing wrong with that but if you're interested in the here
and now, I wouldn't recommend it.

gbwiz wrote:
If you bottled EAA and the homebuilt aircraft movement circa 1960, put
it in a time capsule and brought it out today... that's kinda what SAA
would look like, except Paul Poberezny is looking a few years older
now.

It's very much a "throwback to the good ol' days" kind of club and
there's nothing wrong with that but if you're interested in the here
and now, I wouldn't recommend it.


I'm sorry, but I wasn't even thought of until around the end of the
60's. Could you describe it in a little more detail? Was it more
involved with actually experimenting and sharing the results, and less
with worshiping bloated egos with expensive commericially built airplanes?

Considering their push for safety, I asked the national chapter about
the feasibility of building a simple wind tunnel sized to fit a typical
homebuilt and only produce a 100mph wind. No need for scientific
accuracy, just a system to provide a controlled liftoff to a tethered
plane. Way to expensive was the spokesman's response.

I'd like to be a member of an organization with a little more vision and
a lot more gusto.

--
http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/
"This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."

Smitty wrote:


I'm getting a really bad feeling about EAA in
it's present format.

Now, can anyone comment on the SAA?

It's not actually comparable to EAA. There is no chapter network,
no formal support structure. There is a nice magazine. They are
not out to make a big impact on sport aviation. It's a bunch of
old timers and grass roots type that get together once a year
at a fly-in. Maybe they will have more.

I joined and support SAA because it's my way to say thanks
to Paul and because the flyin is only 40 miles from my airstrip.
I see the SAA as a group of friends and fans of the EAA founder
and folks who support the original idea. There are no vendors
or commercialism at the fly-in. It's completely different than
Oshkosh.


--Dan Grunloh



On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:23:53 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I'm sure if you wrote EAA and asked for "the AoA project that you screwed a
good designer out of" that they would be overjoyed to provide you a copy of
the design.

Jim

"David Bridgham" wrote in message
...
"RST Engineering" writes:

Another colleague of mine submitted a particularly clever electronic
angle
of attack indicator that could be made for peanuts.

I'm intrigued. Do you know if the information on this AoA indicator
system is available? Not that I'm not interested in your low fuel
detector as well.

-Dave