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Old January 19th 06, 01:39 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Default Corvair conversion engines - cracked crank link



Richard Lamb wrote:
Morgans wrote:


"Cal Vanize" wrote

Good points all.

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Yes, that paragraph does seem to run contrary to the rest of the
_long_ website's information. So what gives, others in the know?



Or could it be that it's just taken a few years to rack up 200 hours?

I didn't catch a time span reference on any of the example engines.
But I thought it has been years?


First flight of William's 601 was 13 May 2004. That engine had 200 hours.

The article implies that all the engines were torn down at about the
same time. It must have been fairly recently because one of the engines
was a 2005 engine with 71 hours. The previous "crank update" was 15 August.