Message from the President

The Falco has a way of bringing people together: Alfred Scott, Caroline Sheen,
George Larson, Steve Wilkinson, Al Aitken and Bill Knight.

When you build a Falco, you join a select group of individualists working in common pursuit of perfection. Here I hope you will get a glimpse into this special part of the world. At the heart of the matter, building a Falco is an extraordinary human endeavor with the full spectrum of joy, frustration, accomplishment, victory, defeat, conflict, differences of opinion... life.

Building a Falco is not something everyone should attempt to do. It's an activity suited for only a special type of person interested both in the process and experience of building an airplane as well as flying this extraordinary machine. But for the people who do build the Falco, in most cases, the process and experience becomes the central focus of their lives, second only to their families.

At this time, we're still getting our web page going, so please check in every week or so to see what new things we've added. In time, we hope to have information and photographs on every single Falco builder who has finished the plane, and also a way to visit with builders who are in the process of working on their Falcos.

I have always tried to run Sequoia Aircraft as 'open' as possible. I want all of our builders to know each other, and I want a free exchange of ideas. I don't mind criticism, and I'm happy to print literally anything our builders might have to say. When there is a problem, as happens from time to time, I want everyone to know about it.

In many ways, I feel that I have lead a charmed life. Being at the heart of this activity has been one of the great thrills of my life. Like so many activities, you enter the process focused on the product -- the 'thing' that you are going to produce. But at the end of the day, when you look back at all you've done, the greatest pleasure comes from working with the extraordinary people you come in contact with. They are what makes 'the Falco' for me, and here you can see a bit of the Falco world through my eyes.

Alfred Scott