An excellent book, Virg On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:59:28 -0600 "Oscar Zuniga" <taildr...@hotmail.com> writes: > For those who might be looking for a stocking stuffer book idea, try > Russell > Hitt's book "Jungle Pilot" (available from Amazon.com, among > others). > Corvair/KR builder-pilot Bill Clapp would certainly know what this > book is > about; the life of missionary pilot Nate Saint, a pilot with > Missionary > Aviation Fellowship who died in Ecuador. If you've looked at Glenda > > McElwee's website, she mentions a trip that she and Bill are > planning to > fly, down to Ecuador. Bill is familiar with that part of the > world! > > Nate Saint developed an ingenious backup fuel system for use in > small, > single-engine aircraft that are flown over inhospitable terrain. > Missionary > Aviation Fellowship used this system on aircraft that they operated, > and for > all I know they may still be using it. Nate felt that there were > enough > incidents and accidents caused by fuel system problems that a backup > system > was justified, so he developed a scheme that uses a small auxiliary > fuel > tank piped directly to the engine intake, bypassing the fuel > selector valve, > gascolator, and everything else that can get crudded up along the > way. It's > controlled by a manual valve, similar to mixture control. > > He also developed an ingenious way to lower things from a circling > airplane > to the ground below, using a line and bucket, but that would be > giving away > the details in the book... ;o) > > Oscar Zuniga > San Antonio, TX > mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com > website at http://www.flysquirrel.net > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
Virgil N. Salisbury - AMSOIL www.lubedealer.com/salisbury Miami ,Fl
