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Rotor – Moves To A Hanger – August 2007

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Rotor Moves to LVK airport

Rotor Moves to LVK airport

One day in October, Rotor (Jim’s Rotorway Exec. Experimental Helicopter) awakes to see the garage door opening. It’s been a very long time since the last time he saw daylight on the other side of the garage door. In fact it was when he went under the knife, getting a make over on his floor pan, set back and windshield. The problem was due to the fiberglass distortion from lying around in the heat for so many years

As the garage door opens, he sees is master (Jim burrow) standing there next to a truck. Rotor just knew something was up. But would have never guest that he would be moving into a hanger.
To hear the whole story, please see the short video “Rotors move to a hanger” on You Tube. Just click on the video links. While you checking out the video, you might want to look at the others that are previews to this one.

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Rotor — The re-birth of a helicopter — Sept 2006

Friday, September 1st, 2006
Here I am back home

Here I am back home

Hi! I’m Rotor, short for Rotorway Exec. Experimental helicopter. As you’ve read, I have been around since 1989 when my master (Jim Burrow) bought the first of nine groups from Rotorway Corporation.

Back in the early 90s (before my master lost his job) I was nothing more than a frame. But shortly after my master purchased the first group, Rotorway Corporation went out of business, so my master had to find parts for me from the secondary market.

The first thing he did was to make a mode of my body, tube and panels. Then he put me together for a rough fit and installed my engine (Evin – see the re-birth of an engine).

But, shortly their after, he lost his job and I and Evin sat in the garage for the next 10 years without being touched.

To here my story, please see my video, “Re-birth of Rotor”, on YouTube.com

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The Trip Home — August 2006

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
The trip home -- stopping for a tie-down check

The trip home -- stopping for a tie-down check

Will I’ve been setting up here in the cold for a year now, although it is August 2005. The last time I saw my master (Jim B.) was around September of 2004, when they started me (I’m Evin by the way) with out any problems and let me run for almost a full minute.
But it’s time to go home, back to Livermore. The roomer around here is that my master is going to pick me up today. But I sure am not going to hold my carburetors on that thought.
Will, will, will — look who’s coming up the driveway — I think, I think I’m going home. Yes! I am, I am, and I am.
To hear the rest of the story, please check out my video “the trip home” on YouTube.com

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Evin — Re-birth of an Engine — June 2005

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
Evin - the power plant for Jim's helicopter

Evin - the power plant to Jim's helicopter

Hi! My name is Evin — short for Evinrude Outboard Engine. I was built in 1987 and I am referred to as a Looper 200hp V6 outboard engine.
Around 1992 — take a year or two — Rotorway Corporation went out of business. This left my master (Jim Burrow of Livermore) in a bind for he only had the first group of nine of the Rotorway Exec. Experimental helicopter kit.
So this is were I entered into the picture. For you see I was a boat engine with nowhere to go, for I no longer had a haul to set on. So my master thought he would put me to use in this thing called a helicopter. Although I’m not sure how I was going to work without a lower unit, prop and some water to push around.
Anyway, it turns out that it made no difference anyway, for he lost his job due to government military cut backs. Due to lack of money and motivation, I set in this frame of a helicopter for the next 10 years.
In 2004, this all changed when a Sierra Rotorcraft Club member (Eric) sparked a fire under my masters butt and in August of 2005, I found myself in Clear Lake, Ca. under the knife for “Engine Start Prep” — The re-birth of an engine –
For the whole story and my first sounds out of the operating room, see my YouTube video “the re-birth of an engine”.

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