Hi Will, thanks for coming back on that. I had heard he was extremely busy and I knew that you were faced with some rather tricky calculations. I was sorry that I was not able to get the help, but as the person pointed out it was Nikolas who had all the figures on the various stresses, and design features. I also realise that it is a case of where it is most cost effective for him to spend his, obviously limited time.
In my case, not quite so much a problem I have been faced with years of trying to find a buyer in Kenya, falling prices, then, with a keen buyer last Nov, then facing a major legal clusterfornication by my lawyers that have dragged endlessly on with huge fees and delay of the sale. However I am still extremely interested. The halving of the house value killed my Arrowcopter dream, but that too had faced major problems with Section T certification in the UK with one poor gent in Rochester feeling very sad.
In the meantime the search for a temporary ride might transpire down in Cornwall, but it is a seven hour drive from London, the weather even in the summer is uncertain at the best of times. The Bensen I shared with Tony was over 30 years old and was in need of a major rebuild, so I have been saving up and waiting for this.
I did think about the LA-18 which Mike Concannon in Ireland is going to restart, however I had already flown that and as a training machine ideal, but came nowhere near the agility (instability) of the Bensen, which I loved, and which seemed very apparent, together with stability, in the videos that Nikolas and Giogos have with the Genesis. He has of course got hugely more experience with it which obviously helps in showing it off to maximum advantage.
I would anticipate that Nikolas will continue to be busy on the maintenance side since Cyprus in the Summer is a hive of holiday charter flights and I suspect that he now has added another string to his bow and branched out with that which will be a bigger more predictable earner for him.
On a postive note Tony and I were down in Wales doing some single seat training and have just checked Andy out a two seat Instructor from Chiltern Park who seemed very happy with his experience of single seat flying and I am hoping could be a seedcorn for a resurgence of interest in the singles in the UK, as things were down to a very few singles around. We can but hope.