X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:56:55 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTP id 3473078 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:04:39 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.121; envelope-from=tednoel@cfl.rr.com Received: from OfficeDesktop ([68.204.83.75]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20090202210359.IPKB19709.cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com@OfficeDesktop> for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:03:59 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <44C2411B8F4F47BAB9291C6BE16C915B@OfficeDesktop> From: "Ted Noel" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Alternative Power Plants X-Original-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:04:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0136_01C9854F.DE8D42C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0136_01C9854F.DE8D42C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Having suffered through the pains of a (non-flying so far) V-8 = installation, I find much wisdom in Brent's comments Ted Noel ... What it came down to for me was the simple question of whether I = wanted to design and build and engine installation or build an airplane = and go fly. Having already done the engine thing I decided to adapt the = Lycoming. This only added about 700 hours to the build time. In the = years since I have revisited that decision many times and have yet to = regret it. ... Regards Brent Regan ------=_NextPart_000_0136_01C9854F.DE8D42C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Having suffered through the pains of a = (non-flying so far)=20 V-8 installation, I find much wisdom in Brent's comments
 
Ted Noel
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  What=20 it came down to for me was the simple question of whether I wanted to = design=20 and build and engine installation or build an airplane and go fly. = Having=20 already done the engine thing I decided to adapt the Lycoming. This = only added=20 about 700 hours to the build time. In the years since I have revisited = that=20 decision many times and have yet to regret it.
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Regards
Brent = Regan

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