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With several new guys joining our group recently I often wonder where they are from. I could have a Mini-max builder a few miles away from me and I may never know it. Why don't we introduce ourselves and state where we are from and what stage of planning/building or flying we are at. Include what ever info you are comfortable with. I'll start.
Dick Rake from near Tyler, Texas. 903-852-2109. rrake@cox.net. Have a plans built Mini-max with a Hirth 2704.
Next!

   Larry Vetter, Manson, Iowa

Box stock original miniMAX Rotax 277, built by my brother Dennis and I back in 1988.

Lynn Winter - Uniontown, MO which is about 1 1/2 Hr south of St Louis, MO.

I'm scratch building a 1100R with 1030 wings and the light tail. Power will be a 277 Rotax.

I'm a snappy dresser, a good dancer and all of the ladies think I'm hot!

That last sentence is all a lie

Lynn

Dennis Baker, Chugwater, WY (near Cheyenne)
In the process of buying a Mini Max/Hi Max.  From what I can tell, it cost less to buy the finished product than to build.  

Tom Sheppard. Minimax 91 (1600r) 447 reflexed flaperons. Currently being mended. Based Bournemouth England.

Monte pace, san Angelo,texas, I fly the first 1030f mini-max from the original Team Aircraft company. Rotax 277

Ronnie Corbin
Middle Tennesse
Hi-Max with a Rotax 447
Mini Max Rotax 447.

Jon Ferguson
Coastal Virginia
Hi-VMax under construction, leaning towards full V/W for power plant.

Arthur Withy  Minimax 1500R rotax 447..completely standard.

Adelaide, South Australia

Ken Ragan, Lizella, Ga.
Soon to start construction on a Tandem Air Bike

Hi all,

Matt Ellison, St. Peters Missouri (St. Louis Area), Airbike with a Rotax 447.

I'm putting on the fabric.  Shooting for first flight by fall.

Minimax 1100, Rotax 447, Millinocket, Maine.

Merl Manning, Eldora, IA.
Mini-Max 100R with Hirth 2702

Jim Thompson 1650R EROS under construction with Rotax 503DCDI Ocala, FL. (north central FL.)  #352-558-4892 working on engine install.
Plumbing Contractor.

Sean Winship in Ashland City, TN (30 minutes west of Nashville).
1999 Mini-Max 1600R with Rotax 447 - about 55 hours on it. I am about to have the engine rebuilt and I need to build a new empennage, then I will be able to begin flying it again.
Area code 615, then 423, then 18...45 is my cell.

Bill Bailey   X-MiniMax flyer and current Taylorcraft flyer in Wichita Ks

Roger D Gunderson Tucson AZ, took about 6 years to build, test flew at their age of 62.

Dale Karger Industry, PA ( NW of Pittsburgh )  V-max being refurbished.  
this thread ought to be pinned as a directory of members....just my opinion...

Peter Koszegi,  Hungary, Europe
ICP Bingo STOL Simonini Victor 2, Himax Hirth 2702, Himax 4a084, Minimax 582  air worthy, flying ones.
Himax 447 (under rebuilt)

Steve Owen

Lake Station Indiana
Hi max builder
Live between Michigan and Gary indiana

Ricardo Cavallari, Campinas, Brazil.
Former EAA Tech Counselor. Actually the same for two brazilian associations (Abraex and Abul). Restorer of many old birds (Aeronca, Cessna, Stinson, CAP-4, J-3, etc).
Builder of Tsuru, 3 Airbikes , 90% of a modified Minimax, structures of 2 Stolkings, 1 Starlet a few ultralights and some others  

Tom Spindler Greenbush Mn.  Fly out of Roseau Mn. KROX airport that is 10 miles south of the Canada border.  My plane is a a narrow body org. Mini Max with a Rotax 277. The plane flew for the first time last year and was my first solo at the same time!

Tom

John Riley
Bedford, UK
Built a Minimax in 1989 G-MWFD
Built an AirBike in 2012 G-ISON

Brian Lloyd. Dracut. Mass building a V-max from a complete kit. I have a 4 cylinder hummell VW to put in her when done! I have an active build thread here on this forium

Steve Cooper Big Bear lake Ca. plane flys out of Big bear City airport L-35 field elevation 6750, 909 260 7261 I am a general contractor and co- owner of a solar pv company.

Joe Weber,  50 miles north of Kansas City, Ks.  1100r that I hope I can finish

Harold Acheson, Plano, TX. Minimax 1600R. Have flown all over N. Texas the past 14 years (with a 4 year "visit" to Georgia a few years back)..

Ted Burkey
Davis, California
Currently rebuilding a 1200 Z, all original, no modifications.  Hope to test next Spring.

Everybody's profile has a place for location, contacts, plus signature, use it
Anyway building this Himax launched my aviation carrier in 1992

Paul D. Fiebich
Derby, Kansas
AirBike Single plans built 1998 Experimental category
503 engine 980 TT Hours on the airframe
Hangar at Selby Aerodrome 35KS (5 miles south of Wichita, Kansas)