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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:04:42 -0500
From: Harry League <harryleague@home.com>
Organization: @Home Network
To: Fredmoreno@aol.com
CC: Darus Zehrbach <DARUS47959@aol.com>,
 	"lancair.list" <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Re: Request for Information
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Fred,

We have met several times over as many years at Oshkosh and I have enjoyed your
contributions at Oshkosh's Lancair Forum.

I am as in the dark on this issue as are you.   What I have tried to do is to
encourage Darus to get his data out to us all so that we can examine it in the
daylight.   However, I do not recollect seeing an email that would suggest that I
have any knowledge beyond the sales literature that he forwarded after Oshkosh
1999.   Indeed, I am as interested as you and by copy of this email, I am asking
Darus, once again, to please publish it on the LML.

Really, Darus, it is not that hard to have it scanned and sent as an
attachment.   I am certain that Marv will put it on the web site and I can assure
you that the people that visit this site are serious about their engines.

Harry League

Fredmoreno@aol.com wrote:

> Dear Mr. League:
>
> I am writing you at the suggestion of Darus Zerbach.  There have been several
> claims made on the Lancair builders web site concerning improvements in
> engine performance derived from application of ceramic coatings.  The claims
> do not square with my limited understanding of the topic, but as a mechanical
> engineer with experience primarily in combustion, thermodynamics, heat
> transfer and related disciplines, and as a former Vice President of
> Engineering at several technology companies, my skepticism was naturally
> heightened upon reading the claims made.  On one hand I am ever hopeful for
> breakthroughs permitting quantum improvements in improvement.  On the other
> my experience suggests that many technologies claiming to be breakthroughs
> have failed the test of time and careful scrutiny.  So my simple rule is:
> Show me the data, and how it was collected.    I like to do my own due
> diligence.
>
> Mr. Zerbach sent me the same e-mail letter he sent you, and suggested that
> you could provide some technical information, reports, or other objective
> third party data that I could use to enlighten my limited knowledge.  I would
> appreciate any information you could contribute to my understanding, and
> would request that you mail it to my home:
>
> Fred Moreno
> 1386 Holt Avenue
> Los Altos, CA  94024
>
> Thank you for your consideration.

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