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WALTER B KERR wrote:
Yes, flying is a risky business! We all believe we have a better
mousetrap, especially an engineer with 33 years in the turbojet design
business. If I had to do over, I would copy Tracy to nth detail since he
has been very sucessful at it. My installation has worked fine, but
believe it would be safer with Tracy's tried and proven system. My
biggest disappointment has been my lack of confidence in going distant
places because I see Ed rebuilding an engine in LA, Dave hauling an
airplane back from N CA to S CA, and now Chuck for the 2nd time. I know
we can and will explain the problems. The rotary is basically a more
dependable peice of equipment, but I was more comfortable with a Lycoming
which I flew to places that were not nice to stop in such as over Mount
Redoubt and Cook's Inlet in Alaska. It is interesting and it would be fun
to have a 3 or 4 to experiment and play around with a rotary, if you are
young and energetic!
More power to all of you who are blazing the future of aviation with
alternative engines, but once again with family and time considerations
believe I would benefit from a lycoming. Do you wish to swap out your 4
engine for a rotary Charlie? Or is there anyone else out there with a
lycoming O-320 who would like to swap installations.
Bernie
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Sorry, Bernie. If it runs, I don't 'fix it'.
Wish I'd known last fall you would be interested in a Lyc. My neighbor's -8 (sold to someone else) went down in a field due to fuel starvation & I didn't bid very much on the salvage because I didn't want the engine.
I can fully understand your motives for the change. I'm just hoping there will be a package that I can have confidence in by the time I'm ready for an engine.
Charlie
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