Mark, Larry, Mark Langford has shared so much good information on web pages, that most anything he says is fine with me.
But people do throw rocks... like the A & P that I shot the breese with a couple months back. My local A & P scoffed at both Corvair and VW.. he said get a "real airplane engine". Right now, I still don't have an ready to fly engine. I have a disassembled corvair safe and dry in a crate, but I am on the look out for a reasonably priced VW that will get me in the air. After the November EAA chapter meeting in Mankato, Mn , I got to see a corvair powered dragonfly II run. The owner had taken out a vw engine, sold it, replacing it with a corvair.. As a result had most of a year as down time. He was very proud of his corvair engine, but it still wasn't running quite up to par. As I understand it, he was using VW jugs, and shortened connecting rods.. etc. Kind of a hybrid VW/ Corvair. More horse power, less weight. Dann Johnson Thompson, Iowa List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:02:00 -0600 From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> Subject: Re: KR>Newbie -- VW and Corvair To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Message-ID: <002501c60cdc$a42da0f0$0202a8c0@2600xp> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Phil Matheson wrote: > I was planing a full reply to Marks comments, as I was very disappointed. I'm sorry I disappointed you. My comments were based on the posts of several folks on the list who are either building or flying behind VWs that have said they'd rather have a Corvair in their plane, if they could start over. There are several folks who were flying behind VWs that recently switched to the Corvair. Here's a short list: Bob Lester, Steve Makish, Steve Jones, and Bill Clapp used to fly a VW in his earlier KR2. Why didn't Bill build his new S with a VW engine? Steve Glover was in the process of converting from VW to Corvair when he sold his airplane. There are several folks who've bought VW powered projects that are now converting them to Corvair power (like Colin Rainey). I don't know of a single soul who's flown behind a Corvair that wants to go back to a VW. I even know one guy with an 0-200 in his plane that's planning on installing a Corvair. But I'll try to keep my biased comments to myself in the future... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
