11-13-20 Slats
Worked on my slats. The parts supplied are different than the drawings. In particular the slat support piece which is shaped differently, and the skin has two slots instead of… Read more »
Tag: corvair flight engine
06-28-2020 Aircraft Electrical / SPA Corvair Engine Manual
Read chapter 2 of Aircraft Electrical and am zeroing in on how I want to connect my Ray Allen servo motor electric trim tab controller to the lead wires that… Read more »
06-24-2020 Blog Work / Elevator / Engine Study
700am Refined and renamed story on home page and retitled to “A Micro History of Corvair Flight Engines”. Need a way to do bibliography stuff at bottom of page. Lunch… Read more »
06-23-2020 Rest of Kits Ordered for CH750 STOL
11:30am Today I ordered the last parts of the CH 750 kit (wings, fuel, fuselage, control, nav lights, dual stick, bubble doors). Slated for an August pickup at the factory…. Read more »
2020 Carburetor Reference
William Wynne has produced a great new reference page for Corvair flight engine carbs moving forward. While the Stromberg NAS3 used to be desirable for use on Corvair powered planes… Read more »
10-21-2019 Destroying the Core to Liberate It
There are reasons that William Wynne strongly recommends trying to find a rotating core. I’ve had a rotating core in the past. And I disassembled it. It was quite usable… Read more »
09-15-2019 Motor Wash
Fifty-plus year old Corvair motors can clean up real nice, but it does take work, and in this case considerable work. Here is the beginning of the beginning once TZero… Read more »
09-12-2019 Bringing the Core Home
Once the guys at John’s Salvage had pulled the core for me I took my garden trailer over to the junkyard. I found two guys struggling to put a chain… Read more »
09-07-2019 Corvair Junkyard Visit
9:00am I got out to John’s Salvage Yard in Seguin looking for a Corvair core. I had found some cores a decade ago — and had pulled them apart successfully…. Read more »