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Hi Andy,
We didn't see you today. We stayed there until about 3:30 or so.
Only had one fly-in, Tom Hammer from Corvallis got there after we'd
finished eating and caught up with us as Larry Kruljac's hangar while we
were looking at his collection of Toys. He has his new wing design
mounted on a 415 that he uses for his "test" plane. He also has a new
design for 'dual' exhaust mounted on it that he plans on getting STC'd
when he gets them finished. (The new wings are already STC'd) He has
moved the gascolater to the firewall where the muffler used to be. This
gets it away from the carburetor and is more solid than hanging on the
side of the carburetor via a fitting. I like this change and he says the
dual exhaust will gain about 4hp and be quieter than the standard single
system. (I didn't hear it run, but I'll bet the sound will be nice too).
The EAA visit was very interesting, They're building 11 planes at
the same time, sort of a 'semi-assemby line' process. They'll all be
finshed at the same time and plan on invading Oshkosh with a formation
of them going in together. All exactly the same except for N number and
possibly color.
The way I understand it, ten guys got together and are each
financing 110% of the cost to build one. This way they'll have one
extra one that will be etiher sold or raffled or ????? to get money for
the club 'kitty'.
No one knows until they're all finished which one will belong to
each builder. Upon completion, each plane will be numbered (one thru
ten) and numbers will be dropped into a hat. Each person will draw out a
number and that will be his plane. This way, all planes will be built
with equal skill and there will be no such thing as building one
different from all the others.
We only toured the building that they are actuall being built in.
Since it isn't big enough to house all 11 of them they rotate them
through a storage hangar also. There were three planes 'in the process'
today.
The fuselage tubing is finished, the instument panels are in (an
impressive panel), the rudder is on and they're up on wheels. The
wooden 'turtle-back' structures and built but not mounted yet and the
wings are built but not covered or mounted yet. The same for the
horizontal stabilizers.
I didn't see any engines or props, I don't know if they have them
yet and they were in the storage hangar or if they are waiting until
they are ready for them to buy them. They'll have VW engines.
The 'Crew' wasn't there today, just a couple of guys to show us
around. So our thanks go out to them for coming in on the holiday
week-end for us.
I hope you guys made it back home okay when you saw the bad weather.
It was sunshining in Eugene when we left this morning but it did get a
bit 'margainal' later in the afternoon. We could have flown in and been
okay from the south, but I don't know what it was like farther north.
Sorry you couldn't make it down, maybe next month the rain will be
absent and although colder it'll be less cloudy.
We ended up with 16 people there, 9 members and 7 guests. A pretty
good showing considering the weather and a holiday week-end.
Hope so see you next month,
Bob Saville
N3396H 415C
Eugene, OR
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