CorvAircraft> 3 vair-related thoughts

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

I have 3 related thoughts:

#1: If you stick to the plans and book, and you have bought all the 
parts, and you use all William's parts, the actual disassembly and 
reassembly goes relatively quickly.

#2: If you deviate in any way, you add a lot of time and frustration 
to blaze your own trail.  If you are not really experienced at what 
you're doing, it can be potentially a ***LOT*** of time and frustration.

#3: This applies to both airframes and engines.  I stuck with Thought 
#1 on the engine. I went with #2 on the airframe.  I am now flying a 
Mooney.  Any questions?

LOL

Dave Morris


At 04:23 PM 2/4/2007, you wrote:



>Vair community:
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>1) Arrg. Haven't made much progress in quite a while, for which I 
>don't feel good. Time and Money, I have little of either. Worse, I 
>have no excuses when it comes to local builders and support. There 
>are decent-quality local builders in my area (Christian Bobka, 
>Gordon Alexander, Bill Clapp's father in New Richmond Wisconsin, Del 
>Magsum, Pat Hoyt, etc..), along with the information on the terrific 
>Langford website, and I own the manuals, all the videos, and have 3 
>cores with which to work.  I have to remember the Golden Rule; 
>Persistence Pays. The other Golden Rule is: if I don't get off my 
>fanny and keyboard, nothing gets done.
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>2) One can waste a lot of valuable building time on the internet. I 
>fear that I'm more guilty of this than most posters; I read about 
>the progress everyone else is making, and I'm humbled. I read 
>everything I can get my hands on, but at some point, I need to get 
>in some shop time.
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>Recently, rutting around the EAA chapter 1129 website (Fairbanks, 
>Alaska), I saw an airplane with which I'm not familiar, the 
>"Northstar 6," a PW R 985-powered bush plane.
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>Google; reaching their website, I then find a "LiteStar," and see 
>that, in a photo, it has a Corvair engine on the nose:
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>http://www.customflightltd.com/litestarpics.htm
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>It appears that the airplane, uncovered, in development, was 
>originally intended to be powered with something other than a 
>Corvair, by the way the engine mount looks:
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>http://www.customflightltd.com/litestarpicsuncovered.htm
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>(Indeed, they also advertise that their airplane can be powered by 
>the 0-200 or the 912)
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>Would I be the only guy on this list to have never heard of the 
>LiteStar before?
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>3) CustomFlight also has a link to William's website. Interestingly, 
>they also have a link to ;
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>http://zffltd.com/
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>(I dislike the cheesy Queen Bohemian Rhapsody keyboard music in the 
>background.)
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>When clicking on "engines and propellers":
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>http://www.zffltd.com/enginesandpropellers.htm
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>their site states that they are working on a dual-plug, 
>dual-distributor system for Corvairs. (I believe we already have 
>WW's reliable dual-ignition, single-plug mods available; I'm not too 
>wild about adding weight, and, while I'm all for experimenting in 
>aviation, I'm not big into someone trying to "cash in" on what 
>William is trailblazing). Anybody know anything good/bad about the 
>folks behind Zffltd.com, or the person behind it (Pavel Novak)?
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>Something good I found about Pavel Novak:
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>from  http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/engines.htm  :
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>"The support for the LOM engines has been contentious.  My 
>experience has been commensurate to any project I have worked on out 
>of Eastern Europe- fragmented, inconsistent, and wrought with 
>politics.  My LOM engine project has tried my patience many 
>times.  I did find a good source of support in the form of Pavel 
>Novak from Canada.  Pavel is a Czech native and has worked on LOM 
>engines most of his adult life.  Another ace in the hole is that my 
>wife and her family are Czech, so I am able to rally direct support 
>from the "olt country"."
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>Neither CustomFlight or Zlin Firewall Forward are listed in the 2006 
>Exhibitors list at Oshkosh, on Airventure.org.
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>I'm not interested in purchasing his product; I'm sticking with a 
>WW-interpreted conversion, But, anyone know anything about Pavel 
>Novak and his work?
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>John Schmidt
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>St. Paul, Minnesota
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>651 776 1717
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>EAA 250021
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>Manual 5205
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>CorvairColt
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