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Old Starter replacement
Builders; A little while back, a builder with a flying plane equipped with an original 2400 series starter (Ones we shipped from 2001-2014, before the lightweight 2400L series) asked about getting a...
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Ken Pavlou, Zenith 601XL / Corvair, 620 hours.
Builders, Ken Pavlou called to check in, and mentioned his 601XL now has 620 hours on it. While that isn’t much for an airliner, in a homebuilt aircraft that can be an extraordinary amount of...
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So you like the idea of auto gas….
Builders, Perhaps the second most common question I get about Corvair engines is: “Can I run one on car gas? ” The answer is yes, but like all engines that can, it comes with some limitations. . The...
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Saturday Corvair Club.
Builders, What do you see in the picture below? Most people, sadly including a majority of people experimental aviation, would see the contents of the back of my pickup as “Dirty greasy metal stuff.” ....
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2018 Corvair Events Page
Builders: put this page in your favorites list, as I will be updating it with links to individual stories on each event over the next two months. When friends ask about colleges in 2018, just send a...
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Thought for the Day: “Human Courage”
Builders, In 2008, my father cut this obituary from the New York Times, wrote the two words “Human Courage” on it, and mailed it to me. No further words were required, the photo alone was testimony...
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SPA Billet Corvair Cranks
Builders, Our Neighbor Paul Salter has a 3,000cc Corvair Powered Panther. The engine on it is actually the one from Dan Weseman’s Prototype Panther. It has the first SPA-Made in USA Billet crank in it....
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Farewell to a Good Man; Robert Caldwell departs.
Builders, I took the photo below of Robert Caldwell at Corvair College #40 in Texas. It was a beautiful sunny day at Mineola-Wisener airport. Robert brought his magnificent Corvair-Pietenpol out and...
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Valentines date with two pairs of .38s
Builders, We have many more aviation stories in the works, but I thought I would share this timely non flying one with builders. 15 minutes before sunset, my neighbor Ryan called to say he wanted to...
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Corvair Oil Analysis
Builders, One of the smartest things you can do with your Corvair engine is run a continuing oil analysis program on it, this is a very valuable tool for monitoring your engines health, and we as...
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When Sun-n-Fun was Really Fun.
Builders, Sun N Fun is the second largest airshow in the country, and it has been around for decades. It is held every spring in Lakeland Florida. Today it has been transformed into a Walt Disney style...
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Things to ponder…
Builders; . Things to ponder; Why, in a near empty parking lot, did the owner of a new Lexus park so close to my old truck that I had a hard time opening the passenger door? . . After much...
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Zenith Mounts ready to go, 3/28/2018.
Builders, Below is a picture I took this morning at SPA, the Panther factory, and the distribution point for all the things needed in Corvair powered flight. . . Left and middle are Zenith 601/650...
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Welcome to the 24/7 Anxiety Machine
Advisory: Story Contains no technical information, just a chance to peek under the blindfold we were told to wear. . Builders; In 1995, Dave Pirner wrote a song called “Misery.” It was a commentary on...
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HV-2000 Rear Oil Cases
Builders, Pictured this morning in the hangar, a dozen HV-2000 High Volume rear oil Case assemblies in process. The closer ones are mostly through cleaning, all of them have already had the machine...
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Custom Pietenpol engine mount.
Builders, Below is a picture taken in my shop tonight, on the eve of Easter. The orange fixture is my high thrust line Pietenpol mount fixture. It has been adapted to produce a special one off...
View Article“A thought on Easter” revisited
Disclaimer; Contains no technical information. . Builders, I wrote this five years ago, and it has been reprinted several times since, if you have seen it before, forgive the repetition that a builder...
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One Part at a time….
Builders, Below is a photo of the custom Pietenpol mount which was in the fixture on Friday. . . Monday morning, its off to the powder coater, in a week it will be in Lou’s shop in NJ, one more part...
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Successful Homebuilding: Picking your battles
Builders One of the things new builders nearly always underestimate is the sheer magnitude of the task of building a plane. The two parts they really get off track on are: 1) learning new skills, and...
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Last Part of the day
Builders, The title of the story has two meanings; It describes the ring gear, Part # 2408 ring gear, the last part I made on April 2, 2018, and the bottom two photos which were taken at sunset on the...
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