Rich Vetterli built up his Corvair flight engine using William Wynne's parts and instructions
If you're clever enough to build up an engine, you're clever enough to build a sandwich.
In the morning, the attendees broke into smaller groups, each one intent on seeing first hand how the Corvair engine ticks.
Rich Vetterli runs up his Corvair engine, attached to his handy dandy portable engine stand.
Despite what this photo indicates, the most popular activity was the simultaneous disassembly of five different Corvair cores.
A forklift and a pallet make a great temporary work table for evaluating a Corvair corre.
Here's one of the things that happens when a piston seizes in a cylinder from lack of any lubrication.
Art Hartman uses a bit of WD-40 to loosen things up a bit, as Mike Francis observes.
Larry Husky inspects a freshly liberated cylinder head as Charles McLoughlin supervises.
It’s not unusual for perfectly good core to be locked up with age.
We had no shortage of hands in evaluating the various cores.
As WW frequently says, persistence pays off. This core eventually surrendered its secrets to Art.
There was no shortage of crankshafts to unpack, inspect and evaluate.
One of the highlights was Rich Vetterli’s running Corvair, Yep, he built it his own self.
Not having the wings attached makes moving Rich’s 601 in and out a whole lot easier..
It’s amazing how easily the 601 maneuvers with tricycle gear.
Back home in its construction bay.
Woody blesses yet another crank.
Rich Vetterli’s very nice installation.
Crankshaft cores all waiting for overhaul.
Brady sent down one of three new prototypes for evaluation.
Mike Francis had his freshly reworked heads on display for his 3100.
Mike Francis had some fresh cylinders for show and tell as well.
Plenty of room for airframe building, the engine build area comes next.
