At 01:07 PM 11/10/95 -0600, you wrote:
>Quoting from today's AP newswire:
>
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> But Tuesday, only seconds after he took off from Watsonville
>Airport, something went wrong. The engine seized up, white smoke poured out
>and the propeller stopped. The pilot tried desperately to loop back to the
>runway but lost altitude too quickly. The little two-seater crashed through
>a picket fence, slid down a hill and flipped over, smashing into the back
>of Inez Tucker's barn and bursting into a ball of flame...
>+-----
>
>Imagine, working 18 years on this project only to have the engine seize on
>the first trial run. What a sad tale. Wonder what happened...
>
>-Mark McCulley
>
>
He probably took the thermostat/cooling tin off of the engine. RIP
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