Do y'all have any interest in a little air racer project?

Bill Greenwood · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:45 pm

Gary, I am pretty sure there will be will be a lot of co-pilot seats available to you anytime you should ask. Take care, Bill

B29B24crewchief · **Joined:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:44 pm **Posts:** 379

I probably should stay out of this but I feel too strongly to keep quite about it. I want to tell you how much we want you to not give up on this Gary! Finish your racer damnit!! I want to tell you how much I want you to stay and be apart of what we are doing with the FIFI reengine project. This is your baby and I am here to get it done but you should be here to hold my hand... so to speak! I want you here to see her run and fly again. I know you do too!!! Please don't walk away from this. You have been too important to this to leave it now. Your experience is too vital to it's success.

Dave

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:41 pm

Gary -- I very much agree. It would be a huge loss to the aviation community if you disappear. I can only speak from the Racing side of your Aviation career so far, but you have become very important to all of us who know you through both the Unlimited and the IF1 side of things. We suddenly have a whole bunch of rookies and young guys in IF1 who need somebody with your experience and your common-sense safety orientation. Who besides some of the other Racers can give them what you can, and if a guy is racing he doesn't have the time or breadth of focus to keep these newbies headed in the right (safe) direction. You've been there and done that -- that counts for a lot.

Plus your Racer will be special. It has history -- a connection with the past. It also will be gorgeous -- a necessary example to some of the new guys bringing rough and unprofessional looking airplanes. You can show what can be done with the right attitude and the right approach to a project.

We need your Racer and we need you, Gary.

I know this REALLY is none of my business, but I had to say this...

Old SAR pilot · **Posted:** Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:39 pm

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wasone · **Posted:** Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:26 pm

Gary, Being one was the former owner of your shoestring project, along with several other F1 aircraft, let me say... from one who has flown all my life both as a vocation and avocation, don't give up the projects. I lost my medical and sold my hangar, aircraft and life time of parts. Now 8 years later i'm right back in aviation. For some it's the love of aviation, I know my regrets, don't You make the same mistake! Good luck!

B29B24crewchief · **Joined:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:44 pm **Posts:** 379

Good advice!

Dave

retroaviation · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:18 pm

Well, I just thought I'd give y'all a quick update on Another Solution......

I have sold the project to reknowned Unlimited pilot, Matt Jackson. He has plans to race the airplane (with someone else at the controls....he fits in Sea Furies better) at least one year and will likely place it in a museum after that. There is another significant racer that I was in the process of obtaining that he will likely do the same thing to...but that deal hasn't been completed yet.

Because of Matt's incredibly busy schedule for Reno this year, with the "big iron," he's looking for someone to finish Another Solution (no, not me), and will be looking for a pilot to take it around the pylons, although we have several VERY good candidates for that position. So if you know of anyone that could help Matt get this airplane finished by the races, or better yet, PRS in June, give me a holler and I'll get you in touch with Matt.

So, I reckon my work here is done. :cry:

Thanks again to everyone who supported me during this project. I will never forget it.

Gary

Ian Quinn · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:58 am

Don't give up on the flying !

Small World...

Was reading this whole thread one night and thought that a good friend in New Zealand would be interested so send him the link...

Turns out you had a fly with him in his Tiger Moth when you were in NZ last year :-)

retroaviation · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:23 pm

Ian Quinn wrote:

Turns out you had a fly with him in his Tiger Moth when you were in NZ last year :-)

Yup, that Tiger Moth flight was without a doubt one of my most memorable. What a great time we had!

Gary

Ian Quinn · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:32 pm

Well, you flew with the most respected and best aviator I know

Looks like you did have fun

So, try not to give up on that licence...

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:56 pm

retroaviation wrote:

Gary

OMG... I nearly had water up my nose..

Now that's funny right there! I don't care who you are!

:lol:

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:20 am

I'm bumping this up so everyone can celebrate a time when Gary was really looking forward to the future. Pages 25 and 26 are a little tough, but a lot of fun was had when he was working on Another Solution.

I hope you enjoy re-reading this as much as he enjoyed the process of building the little racer.

Scott

Steve Pierce · **Posted:** Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:30 pm

Did Matt Jackson end up with "Another Solution"?

Brad · **Joined:** Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:30 pm **Posts:** 1131

Steve Pierce wrote:

Did Matt Jackson end up with "Another Solution"?

As far as I know he did.

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:32 am

Gary told me several months ago that Matt was going to finish Another Solution, have someone race it at Reno once, and then it was going to be retired. I don't know if that is how it will play out--it'll be up to Matt or whoever has the little racer now. It was/is going to be a neat airplane when completed. I can't stress enough how energized and happy Gary was when he was building that machine.

Scott

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