{"id":5,"date":"2010-11-04T23:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T04:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garrisonaerodrome.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2010-11-13T23:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:15:47","slug":"place-holder-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrisonaerodrome.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Days Past, but Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Darwin<\/a>

So, how long ago was this?<\/p><\/div>\n

Welcome to the revived Garrison Aerodrome web portal!<\/p>\n

For those of you who don’t know, Garrison Aerodrome is the business persona of me, Darwin A. Garrison.\u00a0 Back between 1998 and 2001, I put out the Push-E Cat, the Manx, the HotCat, and the Positron kits.\u00a0 They were all powered by Speed 400 brushed electric motors of various flavors energized by 7 or 8 cell Nickel-Cadmium battery packs.<\/p>\n

Sadly, my first stab at this business didn’t hang on very well.\u00a0 My wife took great affront to the fact that I needed to have a “real job” as opposed to what I was doing.\u00a0 Worse, I got sideways on the necessary paperwork to keep the State of Indiana happy.\u00a0 I think the final straw came when two assholes ripped me off of about $700.\u00a0 Maybe that seems like small change, but it really made me re-think doing the on-line retail marketing thing and that led to me selling kits through Kirk Massey at New Creations R\/C.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

Push-E Cat Wing plus scrap EPP = Hand Cat<\/p><\/div>\n

Now Kirk was always awesome to work with, but the issue with that was the kits made me a lot less money selling through a dealer.\u00a0 With that factor added in, I kind of lost all incentive to keep at it.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 10 years.\u00a0 The guy I let make Push-E Cat after I stopped dropped out.\u00a0 I also happened to be out of work.\u00a0 When I saw that the old Push-E Cat still had a loyal following that was lamenting the loss of the bird from the market, I decided that maybe the time had come for me to take another stab at things, being a bit older and wiser and all.<\/p>\n

Actually, the time is better than ripe because of all the positive changes that have happened in direct web-based retail marketing.\u00a0 I don’t have to do a lot of HTML programming this time around.\u00a0 Instead, I can use canned programs for everything from WordPress to the shopping cart software to accepting any kind of payment via PayPal.\u00a0 Thanks to that, the odds of me being shafted by either pseudo-customers have dropped significantly.<\/p>\n

\"Cabin<\/a>

The Cabin Foamie shall rise again!<\/p><\/div>\n

Another thing that bodes well for the return of Garrison Aerodrome is the ready availability of CNC machinery.\u00a0 I have already ordered a PhlatPrinter (a low-cost-of-entry CNC router) that will allow me to cut fuselages and flat-foam kits very easily.\u00a0 Building on that, I will construct a CNC hot wire machine using similar electronics.\u00a0 That way, all of my equipment will function similarly, greatly reducing the learning curve.<\/p>\n

Until that all gets going, though, I’ll be doing things the old-fashioned way with my bandsaw, hot wire rig, and router.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll follow along with me as I bring my products into the 21st century of brushless motors and lithium chemistry batteries.\u00a0 The old shall be new and the new will be a lot of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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