Ron,
I'll take a little shot at an answer for ya here. I have the same
plane as Mark Jones and a 3100 corvair. Mine is pretty well cleaned up
and mine has been truing out at 172 mph although this morning with
everything really working well today the true was 176 mph. From flying
with Langford and Clapp my plane is pretty equal with theirs. Climb is
also pretty darn close. Both of them as tail draggers. I am very certain
Langford will suck my canopy off when he pass' me with his new 3100
installed. Either way you won't actually be disappointed.
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa.
joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:16:41 -0800 (PST) Ron Smith
<mercedesm...@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Glad to see you are back in the air.
>
> I would love to hear about the numbers you are getting now with the
> rebuilt engine. I know you had problems with the baffling, and when
> you first flew you were a little slower than expectations. I'm
> wondering with the Corvair what the cruise difference is with
> regards the trigear.
>
> Mark Langford and Bill Clapp seem to have about the same cruise with
> the Corvair taildraggers. Since you have the trigear I was wondering
> how your cruise numbers stack up now that you seem to have some of
> the bugs worked out.
>
> The reason is that pretty soon I will have to make a decision on
> which way to go, either Tri, or tail.
>
> I really love the look of your plane, and am still leaning toward
> trigear, I'd just like to know what some real world numbers are.
>
> Have you flow a tail dragger KR? If so how did it compare to your
> plane?
>
> I have about 85 hours now, none in taildraggers.
>
>
> Ron Smith
> Kr2ssxl
>
