Welcome to my new and improved Q200 web site. Here you will find links to the many web sites that I've put together over the years.  Many were lost to the world as I never linked to them from anywhere!  Some I even forgot I ever wrote, some are really poor but time limits me to just a few minutes for web stuff as I would rather be flying! It's 2008 and I've had a lot of fun over the 24 years that I've been involved in experimental aircraft.  I guess the bug bit me when Rutan first came out with his "plastic" airplane around the 1980's.  I tried to buy a South Florida drug confiscation Vari-eze but the feds running the auction were more corrupt than the drug runners.  Then the sexy little Q2 came out with fantastic performance numbers, could be built in a garage in a few months, an amateur pilot could fly it... Most of the kit airplane folks back then were making up data and really stretching the truth bad!  Problem is that I didn't care for Volkswagen engines at all.  Then the Q200 came out and fit what I was looking for.  After a quick negotiation my kit was purchased from Clio Crop Care in SC and a pile of foam, fiberglass and glue arrived on my doorstep late Dec 1983.   I was a 29 year old kid, had 50 hours in Cessna 150's and was ready to build my high performance airplane!  I joined the local EAA chapter 47 in St. Pete Florida and proudly announced what I was planning.  The whole place burst into laughter!  The old timers there had seen many like me before, many that either never completed their aircraft or later died in an airplane.  None the less they got in there and helped me complete my project and trained me to fly tail draggers. Click a link to the left.  The "Builders Log" is a huge group of web pages that takes you chronologically thru the building of a Q200.  December 1983 a box of foam and glue arrives. June 1985 a new Q200 is rolled out of the garage.   2002.  The "Panel Upgrade" is a small web site that shows the interior and panel circa 2002.  The "1998 Update" well it shows the Q with ugly 12" N numbers from my Bahamas trip days.  The "Bent C antenna" link shows how o build the best antenna for composite airplanes!  The "Repaint the Q" link is something to look at if your getting ready to refinish your fiberglass airplane.  The "New Stripes" link still has to be finished.  The "New Exhaust Pipes" link brings you to my 4 into 4 pipe design which is working out fantastic. The "Movies" link brings you to my YouTube web site where many flying movies are stored with new ones monthly.  The "Flight Stories" links will bring you to several flight reports I've written over the years. August 2007. The most current picture of our airplane. 2-28-09  A Current Inventory of all the Goodies on N3QP Airframe Q200  Q200 N3QP was built closer to the original Q200 plans than even the factory Q200 N81QA JimBob 6 pack:  No Aileron Reflexer: Yes Belly Board: No 5.0 x 4 Chen Shin tires, small tires. LS1 Canard with carbon fibre spar: Yes Sparrow Strainers: Yes Soft Tail wheel: Yes.  Control as good but quieter when rolling on the ground. Locking gas door.  Engine 0-200A Engine: Yes, Standard Ignition System: 1 Bendix Mag (top plugs), 1 Electroair Electronic with vacuum advance (bottom plugs)  Electronics Intercom:  Homebuilt Stereo with Ham Radio/computer/ Cel phone interface.  XMIT indicator LED, Backup PTT switch. Headsets:  Turtle Beack ANR15 acive noise canceling earbuds with Peltor noise muffler supporting the microphone.  Outperforms Lightspeed 20K. Computer:  Fujitsu ST4121 Tablet PC with USB hub supporting input data from Dynon EFIS, Microsoft GPS, handheld Trackball.  Supports moving map with terrain avoidance alarms.  Calls out check list.  Stores airport diagrams.  802.11B wireless.   Flight plan software.  MP3 player, in flight Movies.  Records tower conversations on takeoff and landing. EFIS: Dynon D10.  Pitch Roll, G, Gyro Stabilized Compass, Altitude, Airspeed, ROC. Rear View Camera: HiDef cam displayed on Fujitsu Collision Avoidance:  Zaon MRX tied into the intercom for alarm. AT150 transponder, mode C driven from Dynon D10 EFIS. Carb inlet and throttle plate temperature display. RPM digital readout driven from Electroair Tac output. JC Whitney Engine Monitor circa 1984 with mods.  Future Additions Planned Autopilot, 2 axis, roll pitch Replace Engine baffling with Fiberglass Plenum New engine More Camera mounts     Please select a link to the left to read more about the various projects over the years.  Remember, being an Experimental airplane means your never finished and that's a whole lot of the fun!