On Jul 29, 3:23 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Hi Jay,

Did you make it to the experimental aircraft area? I was watching for
you at our booth but never saw you...

Dean
AeroLEDs LLC

Dean, I owe you a sincere apology. I *think* I saw you the very first
day we were there (Sunday before the show started), as we were walking
back out to the North 40.

You and another guy were carefully aiming an LED landing light (built
into the leading edge of the right wing of an experimental aircraft)
for maximum brightness from the cart path. I immediately did a 180
and started heading your way, when BOTH of my kids grabbed an arm and
literally dragged me away.

This occurred after I had stopped and talked to probably 20 people in
an hour, all of whom knew us and had a story to tell. For my son this
is what's known as "Time wasted yacking instead of looking at planes",
and they had quite literally had enough!

Was that you?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hi Jay,

Yeah, sounds like us... we were in a red, white and blue Kitfox 7A.
We are in Rochester MN for the night right now, and take off at dawn
to fly back to Idaho. Sorry I missed you, just wanted to say hi...

We had fun drinking with the Kitplane Builder guys Saturday night.
They are from Toronto and were a real kick in the pants. They had an
RV-7 with leading edge halogen lights and so we had a landing light
competition. They conceded the light output battle pretty quickly,
especially since they couldn't leave their lights on their battery for
more than 5 minutes. We left ours on for about 45 minutes and only
turned them off so we could concentrate on drinking.

We had a good laugh when Whelen stopped by our booth and their sales
guy chatted with use while the young engineer sulked behind him with
his name badge turned around so we wouldn't know he was an engineer...
after being an engineer for 20 years, it's not hard to tell what he
was up to... :-)

We made some really good industry contacts during the show so the trip
was well worthwhile.

My business partner has family in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. Maybe
I can stop by Iowa City one of these days.

Dean