I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who showed up at my mini KR Gathering and lunch cookout this past Sunday at Hartford, WI airport. It was a great time. There were three KR's there...Joe Weber, Bill Clapp and mine. If I counted correctly, there were a total of 13 people there. Bill Clapp entertained us with two fly bys down hanger alley. He literally flew down the taxi way between a row of hangers. If he had drifted ten feet in either direction, he would have clipped the hangers. I actually squatted down to make sure he did not give me a haircut. he must have took lessons from the master himself...Marty Roberts. Truly a lot of fun. It was great seeing all of you guys and I hope we can make this an annual event as an opening to Oshkosh. The one thing I did not expect when I asked Mark Langford and Bob Glidden to join the fun, was for them to rip my engine apart. They literally disassembled my engine in about 30 minutes. The reason they did this is that Mark L and I did a compression test on my engine and discovered that I have been flying on about 3 1/2 cylinders. The two front cylinders had overheated, due to bad air inlet baffling, back when I was flying the EFS-2 carb and I did not know it happened. After installing the new EFS-3 carb and not getting any better performance was the first clue something was going on in there. The second clue was oil blow by which was on my stub wings after every flight. The compression test revealed the truth....15/80 on #5....12/80 on #6.....41/80 on #3. I think this is a real testament on the Corvair as with this sick engine I still obtained 135 mph cruise and 1100 fpm climb. I can not wait to fly this plane with a healthy engine. Right now, my heads, piston and rod assemblies and cylinders are on my work table. I am still committed to fly my plane to the gathering.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj
