Original Posted By: Ray Krause
Seminar,Asmelash writes in perfect English and has internet access. I'm sure he will be on the Forum right away. I will ask him if it is OK to share his email address.Thanks,Ray KrauseSent from my iPad> On Nov 9, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Semih Oksay wrote:> > Ok. I think I have a few words to say: =8BI am building my Piet in a country which is slightly better than Ethiopia in aircraft materials.> This is based on my lifetime experience: If someone asks for help, do it. If not, forget it.> Question: does Asmelash Zeferu speak (or at least understand) English?> If he seeks help, I am sure he can reach it. You guys (Ray) say he has an e-mail, this means he has access to internet. Since I am closer to Africa compared to you guys, I think I know them better. There is no difference in between the people of this planet. There are good, curious and productive guys and there are others. So IMHO if we can communicate with him and he is opn to advice, we should do what we can.> > Please forgive the philosophy> > Regards> > Semih> > 2015-11-09 20:06 GMT+02:00 Ray Krause :et>>> >> Oscar and Jeff,>> >> I have made email contact with Asmelash Zeferu in Africa, thanks to Ryan' s sleuthing! I sent you a copy of my email to him giving him directions to join the PIETENPOL Forum. I hope that if he joins the Forum, our members will be helpful and recognize the great effort he has gone through under very trying circumstances. I have lived in similar countries with like resources, so I recognize his determination! We should be able to offer helpful encouragement.>> >> He says he has calculated the W/B.>> >> Thanks,>> >> Ray Krause>> >> Sent from my iPad>> >> > On Nov 8, 2015, at 10:02 PM, taildrags wrote:>> >m>>> >>> > Jeff (Boatright)- thank you for taking me down a notch. As a result of being on this list I have low and slow aviation friends all over the world and I am much the richer for it. My intention in making the statement that the world does not owe me (or any other experimental aircraft builder) a duty to help in our success does not mean that we shouldn't jump in and help when we can. It certainly does NOT mean that we shouldn't try, either. It just means that sometimes we get individual ideas and visions in our heads and we push forward with them no matter what the world around us says. In those cases, we just have to do what is in our hearts and heads to do, and failure is certainly an option when we buck the trend and the best advice and just push forward anyway. In fact, sometimes our instinct tells us that something probably won't work but we have to try it to see why it doesn't work and to see if we can find out how we might be able to make it work. I know this is!>> h!>> > ow "Aviken" feels with his Jeep engine Air Camper project, and how some of the rest of you feel with your personalized, "different", custom, unusual, or unorthodox approaches to things.>> >>> > I think that the Ethiopian chap did what he did, the way he did it, because he doesn't have a Wicks, or an Aircraft Spruce, or even a Lowe's or Home Depot or Harbor Freight, or an eBay, or Amazon, or Barnstormers, or a credit card available to him. He has a dream and he put it together the best way he knew how, with what he had available, in spite of what he DIDN'T have. We laugh when we watch the video and the prop flies off just after he fires up the engine, but deep inside we didn't want it to just end there. Maybe we would still have laughed if a wheel fell off after he warmed it up and taxied out, or if any number of other awkward things would have happened later- but the video would have gone absolutely viral if his rig would have made it to the runway, and he throttled it up, and he stumbled and bumbled and bumped it down the runway far enough to where it came up onto the mains and got even a foot or two of air under the tires for even just a few seconds before s!>> om!>> > ething else happened and it came crashing back to the ground. And granted, with as much questionable stuff as he had on it, there is no doubt that it would have come down sooner rather than later.>> >>> > We would have cheered the fact that he flew it. We would have felt what he felt, because we have felt it too. We would have welcomed him into the fraternity of aviators, because he earned it. And maybe he will.>> >>> > Far be it from me to deprive this man from any part of what he has put his heart and soul to do, and to attempt. I hope he makes it.>> >>> > -------->> > Oscar Zuniga>> > Medford, OR>> > Air Camper NX41CC "Scout">> > A75 power>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > Read this topic online here:>> >>> >
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