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RagWing Aviation News

Note that this section has the newest news first, as you read farther down the page you get into older, and therefore less accurate news. All future additions will have a date reference to help you judge just how accurate the information may be!

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Sunday, 20 Jan 2002
Roger's contact information has changed again, the latest is:
Roger Mann
702 Edwards Rd. #8
Greenville, SC 29615
Home (864) 292-5394
Cell (864) 275-2850
As always, the best chance of getting through to Roger is to send him snail-mail with a SASE. I have recently gotten a few emails from him, but they are rare and quite brief. If you feel that you have to email him RagWingMan@aol.com Is still his e-mail address.

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Saturday, 13 Jan 2001
Carlos has Roger's RagWing website back up and working again. Roger's latest contact information is:
RagWing Aero
1705 Trail Rd.
Belton, SC 29627
Phone/Fax 864-338-1335
Home 864-338-6092
E-mail

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Monday, 23 Oct 2000
I spoke with Roger today, here are the highlights from our conversation.
1) Roger is no longer working jointly with Maxim Manufacturing, he is again working alone from his house. 2) The "missing pages" of the Tiger Moth plans are now available, anyone who received TM plans without any center section drawings can contact Roger and he'll mail them to you. 3) His Flying Flea should be flying by the end of October. 4) The 3-place Stork has flown. Roger flew the prototype with a Rotax 912 before he shipped it to Mexico City. Drawings are available for the fuselage modifications, basically he took the side by side version and moved the original seat back and the instrument panel forward to make room for the new pilots seat. 5) Roger is working on a 4 seat Stork. This will be an all new design which he expects to fly around June 2001.

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July, 2000
Here are highlights of a report filed by Glenn Krueger, following a visit to Roger's
Roger is building a three person stork prototype at the present time. It will become available some date in the near future. I do not know if plans will be available. This is an impressive bird.

Roger is building a Flying Flea that is simpler to build than the standard model. He has the wings and fuse completed. I do not know if he will have plans available. If there is a demand, I would assume he would meet the demand.

In buildng the Special, one needs to raise the leading edge of the lower wing by 2 degrees to compensate for the nose high attitude. Roger said that the horizontal stabilizer needs to be adjusted on some planes and not on others. It is a matter of weight that will determine the adjustmets needed. Each plane is a bit different.

Roger now uses Excel exclusively in all gluing operations. He said T-88 is excellent, but he no longer uses it because he doesn't like the two part mixing.

Special Kits are available from Roger, he usually makes up two kits at a time. He shipped a kit the Friday before the visit and has no kits in stock at this time.

Roger will be expanding his work shed into a new facility next to his present shed sometime this year. He has the area cleared of trees, but not stumps. Roger will only build prototypes at this workshop and some turn key aircraft (all completed).

The stork kits are delivered with the fuse and the wings completed and ready for varnish from the Ragwing Aviation facility located about 10 miles from his home and workshop. The Stork is expected to exceed the Special in popularity within the next year.

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The following is the complete text of a press release that Roger is sending (in his words) to "all the mags"

N e w s   R e l e a s e

RagWing Aviation announces expansion, new name and partnership.
After almost a decade of maintaining the business alone Roger
Mann has joined with Maxim Manufacturing Co. Inc. to form RagWing
Aviation Products Inc.
Emphasis will be placed on shipping the Stork and Tiger Moth
two place and Pitts ultralight replica kits. All of which have
already been in production. Tech support, kits and plans
will be sold for the other RagWing designs which include the
Ultra "Piet" Aircamper replica, the Heath Parasol and Midwing,
and Baby Ace ultralight, and the Ragabond two place aircraft.
These designs will be kitted at special request. Factory support
is offered to all past and future customers and we are looking
forward to supplying customers anything they need including
flight training, test flying, and builder assistance programs.
New address is:
RagWing Aviation Products Inc.
152 Highway 184 N.
Iva, SC 29655
864-348-6216 (voice)
864-348-6186 (fax)