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PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:58 pm    Post subject: Thanks to the Grumman Gang Reply with quote
Hello, to all and thanks to all for your hospitality at the Convention. 
 
My name is Rj Siegel and I'm the new CEO at LoPresti. For those that know me, you know I'm a Grumman nut. There are three reasons. 1. I love to fly with the canopy open. 2.Having worked with Roy, I love the design. 3. I am world class cheap. (Ask my kids). 
If ever there were a group of aviators that share my sensibilities, the Grumman Gang is it. I can't be two faced about this. If I want to help keep our birds flying I need to make special considerations for that fact. 
 
I'm going to come to the group and ask you what products you want us to work on. We'll see if the price is good and if so, we'll make the product. If not, we'll go on to something else. We're working on a set of wheelpants that can give us substantial drag reduction, but the market is small and they will be pricey. When we finally nail down the price we'll ask you, Yea or nay. That will be our process ongoing. 
 
Also, we will offer periodically some special prices that I guarantee you will get first. In most cases you will be the ONLY group to get these prices because they require a minimum of 10 orders. To start this off, I will offer up our Cowl. I'm not gonna be a sales guy here. I'm an engineer so here is what I know. The cooling is improved and if you have a PowerFlow you should have our cowl. The air induction is improved, so you will see a 200 RPM improvement in max cruise. The drag reduction is such that you will see between 3-5 knots improvement at max throttle. But mostly...your bird will no longer look like it came from the late 50's. 
 
We're improving the design and construction, so the new cowls will be a bit lighter and more finished. The retail price is $4000 and the deal I will give the group is $2900. Most importantly, there is a 100% money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied for any reason, you get your money back. Period. 
 
Finally, there is no one to hit up for ANY communication that comes from our company but ME. If you have an issue with anything we do...here's my private cell number 414-793-6676. Please remember I'm happily married, I have kids and I have a life. I may not always be available but I will get back to you. 
 
Thank you again and Cheers! 
 
Rj Siegel CEO/LoPresti Aviation Engineering 
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:22 pm    Post subject: Thanks to the Grumman Gang Reply with quote
Bravo. I, for one, am very impressed with your message and offer, RJ.
Hope our members/users respect your reasonable ground-rules.
Exciting to hear from you and looking forward to seeing you as a
long-term active member of our supplier base for original parts and
performance enhancing improvements.

Now, as an avid "Grumman nut", you know that the nosebowl is different
from the cowl. Can you confirm you are actually talking about the
Lopresti nosebowl? And is it the new lighter design you mentioned?
Sounds intriguing, for cooling and drag improvement. Looks pretty
close to the $1,000 per knot performance metric.

Cheers!
--Brian

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If ever there were a group of aviators that share my sensibilities, the
Grumman Gang is it. I can't be two faced about this. If I want to help keep
our
birds flying I need to make special considerations for that fact.
To start this off, I will offer
up our Cowl. I'm not gonna be a sales guy here. I'm an engineer so here is
what I know. The cooling is improved and if you have a PowerFlow you should
have our cowl. The air induction is improved, so you will see a 200 RPM
improvement in max cruise. The drag reduction is such that you will see
between
3-5 knots improvement at max throttle. But mostly...your bird will no longer
look like it came from the late 50's.

We're improving the design and construction, so the new cowls will be a bit
lighter and more finished. The retail price is $4000 and the deal I will
give the group is $2900. Most importantly, there is a 100% money back
guarantee. If you are not satisfied for any reason, you get your money back.
Period.

Rj Siegel CEO/LoPresti Aviation Engineering




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ArjayS(at)aol.com
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:14 pm    Post subject: Thanks to the Grumman Gang Reply with quote
Hi Brian
Hoisted on my own petard! Yes, I mean our nose bowl. And while I'm at it let me put in a plug for AU Country's cowl. He's done a very good job. I really admire his tenacity, because I know how tough it is to get approvals for a large company much less a one man band. In fact we actually started with a complete cowl redesign 20 years ago and decided to take the nose bowl approach because we got the lions share of the improvement at a far lower price point. (Discretion being the better part of valor...)

Finally, yes all future cowls will have a "kaizan" approach. (continuous improvement). Lighter, better, faster...maybe even sexier.....
Cheers!
Rj


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--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: Brian Hausknecht <bhauskne(at)gmail.com>

Bravo.  I, for one, am very impressed with your message and offer, RJ.
Hope our members/users respect your reasonable ground-rules.
Exciting to hear from you and looking forward to seeing you as a
long-term active member of our supplier base for original parts and
performance enhancing improvements.

Now, as an avid "Grumman nut", you know that the nosebowl is different
from the cowl.  Can you confirm you are actually talking about the
Lopresti nosebowl?  And is it the new lighter design you mentioned?
Sounds intriguing, for cooling and drag improvement. Looks pretty
close to the $1,000 per knot performance metric.

Cheers!
--Brian



> If ever there were a group of aviators that share my sensibilities, the
> Grumman Gang is it. I can't be two faced about this. If I want to help keep
> our
> birds flying I need to make special considerations for that fact.
>To start this off, I will offer
> up our Cowl. I'm not gonna be a sales guy here. I'm an engineer so here is
> what I know. The cooling is improved and if you have a PowerFlow you should
> have our cowl. The air induction is improved, so you will see a 200 RPM
> improvement in max cruise. The drag reduction is such that you will see
> between
> 3-5 knots improvement at max throttle. But mostly...your bird will no longer
> look like it came from the late 50's.
>
> We're improving the design and construction, so the new cowls will be a bit
> lighter and more finished. The retail price is $4000 and the deal I will
> give the group is $2900. Most importantly, there is a 100% money back
> guarantee. If you are not satisfied for any reason, you get your money back.
> Period.
>
> Rj Siegel CEO/LoPresti Aviation Engineering
>
>
>
>

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