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Subject: coupe finds hiding tractorHiWas the coupe that died on take off just trying to find another piece of machinery as old as itself, ( the 1945 tractor) or did it have a semi-common coupe problem of boiling the gas in the fuel line, causing a vapor lock, as I had commented on a week or two back? This may not have been the cause of silence and the wish to return to terra firma in this case, but I'd say it sounds like another "mysterious" happening. These same engines go countless thousands of hours in other types of planes and never (or seldomly) die on take off as do quite a large number of coupes. Having wrestled with this problem myself at length, the (unauthorised) insulating of the fuel line certainly saved my bacon, after numerous heart stopping power losses that no one could solve. Again I know this should not be necessary, and many say their coupe is just fine as is, but I have heard from more than a dozen coupers that had "mysterious" power loss on take off or in cruise. It would be interesting to place a temperature probe next to the fuel hose and get the reading on take off and at cruise. I think it would really open some eyes to a potential problem. Well anyway, too bad about the tractor, (oh yes, and the coupe! .Jon Page. Flak Magnet. 415-C
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