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Fly Baby Plans Off the Market
Due to an Estate dispute, marketing of the plans for the Bowers Fly Baby
has stopped. It is unknown how long they'll be off the market. Or that matter, whether they'll ever return. If you have a set of plans you no longer need, I can help put you in contact with potential buyers. Also, EAA SPORT AVIATION magazine published a fourteen-part series on building the Fly Baby in 1963-1964. These articles are available reprints from the EAA, and are also contained in the CD-ROM of SPORT AVIATION back issues. The instructions aren't the step-by-step type, and the drawings aren't full-sized, but full-sized CAD layouts for steel parts can be found at: http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/index.html#layouts ....and technical assistance is available from folks on the Fly Baby mailing list. There were some slight dimensional changes since the original SPORT AVIATION article, and we're trying to gin up an 'errata' sheet. The next issue of KITPLANES has an article by myself that includes an address for ordering. Unfortunately, the pulling of the plans sales came too late to remove the address from the article. Ron Wanttaja |
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Interesting manner they have of handling the "dispute" - I ordered a set of
plans back in February of this year and heard nothing until May. I received a letter apologizing for the delay in early May and the plans shortly thereafter. The "unusual" part about it all... the February check still hasn't cleared the bank. |
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FlyBabyBuilder wrote in message ... Interesting manner they have of handling the "dispute" - I ordered a set of plans back in February of this year and heard nothing until May. I received a letter apologizing for the delay in early May and the plans shortly thereafter. The "unusual" part about it all... the February check still hasn't cleared the bank. The executor of the estate turned the check over to the attorney, who in turn turned it over to an incompetent grunt who fancies himself a paralegal, who then stuck it in the file and it is now lost in the fog of litigiousness. |
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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:07:53 -0400, " jls" wrote:
FlyBabyBuilder wrote in message ... Interesting manner they have of handling the "dispute" - I ordered a set of plans back in February of this year and heard nothing until May. I received a letter apologizing for the delay in early May and the plans shortly thereafter. The "unusual" part about it all... the February check still hasn't cleared the bank. The executor of the estate turned the check over to the attorney, who in turn turned it over to an incompetent grunt who fancies himself a paralegal, who then stuck it in the file and it is now lost in the fog of litigiousness. Ummm... well, that certainly differs from the version *I* heard. Ron Wanttaja |
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"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:07:53 -0400, " jls" wrote: FlyBabyBuilder wrote in message ... Interesting manner they have of handling the "dispute" - I ordered a set of plans back in February of this year and heard nothing until May. I received a letter apologizing for the delay in early May and the plans shortly thereafter. The "unusual" part about it all... the February check still hasn't cleared the bank. The executor of the estate turned the check over to the attorney, who in turn turned it over to an incompetent grunt who fancies himself a paralegal, who then stuck it in the file and it is now lost in the fog of litigiousness. Ummm... well, that certainly differs from the version *I* heard. Ron Wanttaja Uhhuh, well, that's what I get for theorizing, Mr. Consigliero Wanttaja. Which reminds me. I found one of your old posts from the nineties about Plasti-Kote high-temperature paint, finally located some in flat black, painted the T-Craft pipes, and am thoroughly sold on the stuff. On the subject of an estate, the attorney whined to the clerk that I was holding him up from closing an overdue estate because I had not provided him with indispensable papers. I called my daughter and accused her of being slack, whereupon she called the attorney, finally got his grunt runner on the phone, and voila, there were the papers already deeply tucked into his grungy file. Sorry to go so far off-topic here, but it seems the scarcity of Fly Baby plans will probably resolve soon, especially if your organization acquires the rights to them while the family squabbles. I was going to get to fly one this summer and see what all the hoopla is about, but it has become a hangar dog because the owner won't get off his duff and buy the parts we need to overhaul the little A-65. Or maybe his wife has a veto. I had a vetoing wife once, so divorced her in the 80's. |
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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:37:27 -0400, " jls" wrote:
"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message .. . Ummm... well, that certainly differs from the version *I* heard. Uhhuh, well, that's what I get for theorizing, Mr. Consigliero Wanttaja. Oh, OK, sorry for being a bit thick. It's just that the situation is so bizarre, your scenario would be an improvement. IIRC, you're a member of the Fly Baby list...check out message 3850. For everyone else, the lesson is: If you want things to happen after you die, put them in a will. Ron Wanttaja |
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