William Wynne

Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays From FlyCorvair.com Post College . . . Long Week In the Hangar through Dec. 2, 2006 Part 2 At the beginning of our long week, Bill Clapp came down from Georgia to polish and paint Rick Lindstrom's 601 XL. Two days into his visit, we received word that Bill's aircraft was on the cover of the EAA's Sport Aviation magazine. He picked up the phone at 10 o'clock at night to share the news with his parents in Wisconsin. Above is a photo of our Zenith 701 firewall. Although it might try the imagination, this airplane will fly to Sun 'N Fun 2007. The project is on track as Gus has cleared his schedule to complete the airframe. I will be developing the firewall forward package in the coming weeks. We'll keep everybody posted here and at www.ZenVair.com. Here's the beginning of the polish job on Rick's 601. I've never met anybody who can work as many productive hours in a row on a plane as Bill Clapp. The ability to run a polisher on an airplane 8 or 9 hours in a single day is hard to imagine. Although Bill's not very burly, I wouldn't challenge him to an arm wrestling contest. The 701 firewall done and painted. An example of some of the details Gus put into Rick's airframe. The taillight fairing is formed metal rather than the kit supplied plastic. Rick's N-number with our ZenVair logo. We'll have more of these stickers available shortly. Bill hard at work on Day 4. Outside is Casa de Clapp, Bill's VW Vanagon of many adventures. He aquired it from the local Kmart where it was abandoned in their parking lot. It came with a lot of Grateful Dead stickers inside, and Kevin translated the significance of them to Bill. A shot of Rick's canopy, above. Most 601s have an aluminum strip for fairing the canopy's fit to the boot cowl. However, with careful trimming, it's possible to put the rubber gasket on the canopy itself and eliminate the aluminum strip altogether. On Rick's airplane, we deleted the plastic brakelines and replaced them with 1/4" aluminum 5052 lines and AN fittings. The line passes out of the cabin by the rudder pedals using this 90 degree bulkhead fitting. The line travels beside the external longeron, and then down the back of the gear leg. At the bottom of the gear leg, the aluminum line is bowed backwards to allow the caliper to properly float on the brake assembly. The 5052 line will not work harden on an aluminum gear. Plastic lines can sometimes become brittle when exposed to brake heat inside wheel pants. We've used the same setup on our own airplane, seen in the background above, for two years. Now At The Hangar March 2008 At The Hangar February 2008 At The Hangar January 2008 At The Hangar Christmas 2007 At The Hangar November 2007 At The Hangar October 2007 At The Hangar September 2007 At The Hangar August 2007 At The Hangar July 2007 At The Hangar June 2007 At The Hangar April 2007 At The Hangar March 2007 At The Hangar February 2007 At The Hangar January 2007 At The Hangar December 2006 At The Hangar Part 1 December 2006 At The Hangar Part 3 November 2006 At The Hangar October 2006 At The Hangar September 2006 At The Hangar August 2006 At The Hangar July 2006 At The Hangar June 2006 At The Hangar May 2006 At The Hangar At The Hangar In April 2006 At The Hangar In March 2006 At The Hangar In February 2006 At The Hangar In January 2006 At The Hangar In December 2005 At The Hangar In November 2005 At The Hangar In October 2005 At The Hangar In September 2005 At The Hangar In July 2005 OSH, Illinois and SAA June 13, 2005 At The Hangar June 13, 2005 Part II At The Hangar In May 2005 At The Hangar In April 2005