Mark,
I took some photos of all three of the KR's at that Corvair college
yesterday. If you would like, I can email them to you so that you can see if
there is anything that you might want to post on your site.
Thank you,
Steve Henderson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]>
To: "KRnet" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:03 PM
Subject: KR> Corvar College #8
> KRnetHeads,
>
> I got back from Corvair College today. It was another great one, with a
> whole bunch of people building Corvair engines, and a few being torn down
to
> begin the process. I'm guessing at least twenty were built this weekend,
> and several were run on the test stand. I'll probably do a web page on it
> eventually, but for now there are two pictures I want to throw out there.
> One is of the three KRs that were there, which is a record for Corvair
> powered KRs. See
> http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/corvair/cc2004/041113149m.jpg , with
Steve
> Makish, Bob Lester, and Bill Clapp, left to right. Also, Jack Cooper got
his
> beautiful engine running on William's test stand before nightfall last
> night, as shown at
> http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/corvair/cc2004/041113347m.jpg , with Mike
> Hyers helping a lot. Here Jack is shown checking the rpm with an optical
> tach. Glenda also showed up and worked on her engine, although she
already
> had a great head start on it. She also brought a VW Type 1 in airplane
> configuration for dyno testing later on. There were several other KR
> builders there as well, building up future KR engines. Maybe some of them
> will throw some more pictures out there.
>
> I suspect this will become a big Corvair FLYIN as well as engine building
> experience, as more "graduates" return with their flying airplanes. I'll
be
> there next year, weather permitting. Now, back to work...
>
> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
> see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
>
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