ROL NEWS--AeroTech Files for Chapter 11

You are a complete painful rectal itch.

I defer to having an "Irvine" the morning after I have dined on especially spicy food.

Jeff Barnes

Hmmm. Only 11 months later.

Not bad considering I heard a supplier I trust say THEY would have filed BK shortly after the fire. So now he is BK and stupid and also a lover of begging customers to get ATF permits? Hmmm. How could you have predicted it?

:)

Predicting the obvious is a terminal offence on rmr. Damn good thing you are anonymous.

Jerry

I have no problems with the choices, just the ammounts available. just had someone drive to the twin cities to pick up ANY F&G motors, only got one pack of G's (all he could find)

and we got both! :)

Jerry told you what to do. To save AeroTech and to add 5+ new motor

I will agree with this. From the way I see it, mid power is hurting for choice of engines. We could definately use at least a couple more manufacturers in this area, certified or not(doesn't really matter to me).

Sad truth is though John, I do not have access to their product like I used to. The hobby is not dead (yet), but I wholly disagree that it is "going strong". In fact, I utterly refute that claim.

It is not FUD, it is actual fact of stock not on the shelves of places where it used to be, forcing me to buy at elevated prices and pay unit based shipping. We cannot rely on so few motor makers. While I want to help AT to not go away (and now understand that this move may help that) I still do not want to rely so heavily on them. The costs associated with home brew are not looking so bad by comparison, in the current situation.

~ Duane Phillips.

By the way, I see nothing posted on the AeroTech website confirming this...

You mean the same logic NAR/TRA uses about DOT "approved" address changes?

Jerry

Maypops.

;-)

George, George, George

if the News and Press pages have not been updated in more than a year, it simply means that they do not post current happenings

- iz

GCGassaway wrote:

F&G SU and Reloads are plentiful. The Hobbytown in my neighborhood always has them on the pegs. All you have to do is ask the store owner to order them. Their distributor has them and restocking seems pretty quick.

Another GREAT source is JUST ROCKETS.. We lost our local vendor in Arizona, so Scott came to our last launch with totes FULL of AT reloads and SU motors F and up. He also carries the cool Ellis Mountain SU motors. (I-69, H50, etc.), Pro38's and I saw them for myself. He has them in stock.

He also makes a mean smoked turkey!

Bought a few Flis Kits from him too. Cool stuff for under the Christmas tree this year.

I have no affiliation with any of these vendors, just passing along the word on good vendors. Givem 'em a try..

-Chr$ NAR 79536 L1

Al's Hobby Shop is has a good stock of AT RMS motors at the moment

- iz

Chr$ wrote:

May I quote you on that?

Have you talked to the manager or owner of these stores to figure out why they don't have any stock? It could be they decided not to stock them after not being able to get motors for 18 months.

Aerotech still has more demand than supply for some sizes of motors. Production levels are not yet back to pre-fire levels.

Most motor manufacturers are not interested in the 18mm, 24mm, and 29mm market due to low margins on those products. AMW and Cesaroni are only doing 38mm and up.

If you are willing to pay for shipping, you can fairly easily get Aerotech motors. Most likely will be cheaper for the small motors than making your own.

You really need to make EX motors for fun, not to save money. To make them safely really requires a good sized investment in equipment and supplies.

I'm getting started in EX and I figure I'll spend enough on equipment and supplies up front to buy a few N2000 reloads.

Brian Elfert

Quite interesting...

Our local hobby shop just received a large shipment of consumer line motors E18, F40, F52, G64, G35EJ from Horizon Hobbies(which is an Aerotech Distributor). The magazine is chocked full of 29mm and 38mm Easy Access motors from G75 to J570, all from recent shipments. Same goes for 54mm and larger reload kits. I don't think they are getting any special treatment, so I'm wondering why the other shops don't have stock unless they haven't placed orders. Then again, the hobby shops thenselves might be cutting back on inventory due to the poor economic conditions.

John

IIRC The Hobby Town across the street from my house(Minnetonka) had some F's and a few G's a few weeks ago. I'll probally stop by there this week to make certain.

Ted Novak TRA#5512

Perhaps for you, but for the rest of us, it's pretty easy. They have certified motors, and a reputation for not ripping off their customers. Plus, they have valid DOT EX numbers, several of them. They have had their products widely available in stores, at dealers and on the web.

Now, your stuff is largely the stuff of dreams, daydreams, or in your case, wet dreams. Lessee, you've got a website full of vaporware, a reputation as a ripoff artist, an arrogant, condescending attitude towards most everyone here, highly suspect EX numbers - highly! - and I've never seen any USR stuff in any store, on any web vendor's site, or with any dealers I've met.

Of course, if you think this is how a company should be run, then I can see why you'd think AT was poorly run: they don't behave like you do.

BTW: I've heard you still haven't shipped all the prizes you committed to for saverocketrynow.com . Your rep sinks even further.

Doug

I've fired one o' them thar "Jerry motors". Armed the panel and hit the switch myself.

Ain't vaporware, sir.

Hmmm... there seem to be a lot of stories going around to the tune of "there's a lot of stories going around about a bunch of people who said they heard Jerry ripped someone off..." I mean, what is this, a dark and stormy night around the campfire?

-dave w

I'm sorry, 2 accusations per reply is the limit on rmr,...

Joel. phx

As a dealer I have been advised by AT that they are continuing to accept and ship orders. No worries.