A note to my supporters:

I would like to thank those of you who have been following my progress building the Corsair82. As you all know, I have not updated the website in a few years. I would like to take the time to explain the inactivity caused by two main events.

The first event was the destruction of the other project I was a partner in, the Nakajima Ki-27. That project was destroy by a hangar fire set by burglars. The loss of time and money invested in that project really took away my motivation to build airplanes.

The second event happened at about the same time. While cleaning up the destroyed hangar and getting ready to rebuild it, my knees started to fail. I got to the point where I could barely walk. This was a result of traumatic knee injuries I sustained when I was young and stupid. Double knee replacement soon followed. I also have to admit to getting a bit lazy during the recovery period.

A small roll in the inactivity can also be attributed to the problems I have encountered with having the landing gear built by a professional. While I was able to built the prototype, I am not good enough at machine work to build an aircraft quality landing gear system. The machine shop that helped me with most of the prototype parts was going to build the whole system for me. I delivered the gear to that shop in mid 2006. After three years, not much work had been accomplished. I finally got the gear back in late 2008. In mid 2009, I delivered the gear to another shop in the northern part of Illinois. It took us quite a while to get things together to get under way, but now the gear parts are shaping up nicely. The new landing gear parts will be the subject for the new update for this web site.

On a different note, I need to apologize to a number of you for not answering emails. I am always slow to answer emails due to the sheer volume of email I receive. (I only answer the serious emails)

The hard drive in my computer crashed and caused me to lose lots of email I had intended to answer. If you were one of those whose email went unanswered, and if this note did not answer your question, please email me again.

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