Original Posted By: "Barry Davis"
Hey Gang!CC13 is right around the corner, literally a week away.It will be hosted by William Wynne, the Corvair Authoritywww.FlyCorvair.com and First Light Aviation aka FLAG, (located adjacent toLivermore airport- LVK, Livermore CA. www.flaglvk.com ) Sorry guys, Grace Ellen is staying home this time. :(But Cory Emberson (KITPLANES babe) will be milling about, maybe even gettinggreasy. And for equal time and so that I'm not labeled as being TOO sexist,KITPLANES hunk Rick Lindstrom will be there to entertain the ladies. Here's a link to the event: http://web.mac.com/flaglvk/iWeb/FLAG/ccol.htmlEven with the lack of driving instructions on the website (Rick!) getting toand around the commercial complex shouldn't be too difficult. I'm sure therewill be signs posted so no one gets lost. I hope their address is in my TomTom database as the entire crew fromCONTACT! Magazine (well... me and John Moyle) are making final preparationsto be in full attendance. We'll be bringing our engine test stand and makingit available for anyone to use. The engine that's on it now, suffered acatastrophic failure of the accessory end of the engine; the ring gear istracking almost 2" out of line and it's not bent. So that engine will comeoff and be busted down to find out what happened. During a past tandem-wing gathering we ran some vibration studies with thisengine and it showed some anomalous readings which COULD be an indication ofa failing crank. You can see the telemetry wires in this photo:www.ContactmMagazine.com/Fly-Ins/LVK_20 ... gHopefully we can learn something from it.Once the engine is removed, it's entirely possible to install 1-3 differentengines on it and be run up during the weekend, if we all pull together. This should be a KILLER event. It's very rare to have a Corvair College westof the Rockies (only three to date) so if you are even remotely interestedin Corvair engines, or are just hungry- there will be tons of foodavailable... but you have to pre-register to partake: www.tinyurl.com/CC13-RegistrationBe there or be square!Pat________________________________________________________________________________