Sorry to hear about this, I had hoped to hear about your first flight. Good luck on finding the cause. The only good thing about this is that it didn't happen in the air. Mike Turner Jackson, Missouri Swing the prop and light the fire, dance amoung the stars.........N642MC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 8:26 PM Subject: KR> Bad day
> Well, there won't be any flying for Dan and Jerry anytime soon. We put > the > tail in a valley between the taxi way and the runway to get the tail low. > Jerry was running it at about 3000 rpm, with less than a1/4 tank and it > was > running great. He started to pull back and the engine came to a very > abrupt > stop. It is frozen. There was no indication that anything was wrong. No > smoke, no foul temp readings, no nothing. So now back to the shop with > the > engine. I don't like working on them. I can build them, but really don't > trust myself with it and I don't know who will work on a VW for an > airplane, > that I would trust. > > > See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics > See you in Mt. Vernon - 2006 - KR Gathering > There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for > building > is OVER. > Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
