"Sam Hoskins" wrote in message ...
This builder was unknown to the California Quickie community. So far, non
of our guys have come forward and said this builder had contacted any of
them about flight testing, quirks and handling characteristics of the Q
breed.

Not to cast aspersions, or slight the loss to the family (I have four
kids - can't begin to imagine...) but might it be possible that an
engineer for Scaled Composites, working on the X-prize aircraft, might
have thought that he already knew everything he needed to know about
unusual composite aircraft?