Veeduber wrote:

Also Bob, the word is fraNGiable - from the Latin frangere - to break.


Richard (just another dumb American)

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I prefer fragmiable. More descriptive. As in, to frag -- from the two tours
in I Corp -- to blow that mutha AWAY.

As for the dumb part... Hey bro, I wasn't the only guy to give you a heads-up
on your first engine -- the blocked cooling channels and that power-robbing
exhaust system.


Yep. And that'e exactly what happened too. Both heads cracked about
the same time.
Just after the first turn into the pattern (so yes, on take off).
It just went blaaaaaagghhghhhh.


After leading the horse to water the rest of the job is up to the horse, hoss.

-R.S.Hoover


My Grandad used to day that too.

Must be true.


I don't believe in two seat VW powered planes.

Even with the prop on the "right" end, it just doesn't have the
displacement,
nor the cooling capacity to sustain more than 40 horse - at sea level.

Pity.


Well, so let's see what the alternatives are?

Rotax 503?