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 on: Today at 05:05:39 AM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Chris Kuykendall
This is her birthday (102).  The specific link I'm finding now for the PattersonIrrigator.com obituary, referenced at reply #23 of this thread, is:

https://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/news/obituaries/helen-betty-brown/article_480a3af9-4e73-54da-b421-ec842a9b661c.html

There's another obituary, behind a paywall, for which I paid $0.99 this morning.

Danville Commercial-News (Danville, Illinois), June 24, 2014.

https://obituaries.commercial-news.com/obituary/helen-brown-718122221

Helen "Betty" Brown passed away on June 18, 2014, in Turlock, Calif. She had just celebrated her 92nd birthday with her family.. She was born May 24, 1922, in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. She lived in the Rossville-Hoopeston area for 63 years and then moved to Patterson, Calif., in 2005 after her husband, Oliver Daniel Brown, passed away in October of 2004. She also was preceded in death by her parents, Kenneth and Olive Klenck, and her sister, Jeanne Klenck Tomasieski.. She was an amazing woman! Her life was full of adventuresome and interesting events - from how she met and married her husband "Brownie" to hearing distress calls from Amelia Earhart on her ham radio when she was just 15 years old. Her hand-written "notebook" is now in the Smithsonian Institute and has helped the "TIGHAR" Group in its continuing search for Amelia's plane. She had appeared in documentaries for both The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel.. She also was an artist and an avid genealogy buff and had researched the family history back to the 1300s AD.. Her great love for her family gave her much happiness and enjoyment. She is survived by her daughter, Dona Brown Harper; her son, Daniel (Judy) Brown; and seven grandchildren, Timothy (Tobie) Moyles, Michael (Monica) Moyles, Sheila Moyles (Greg) Garfield, Shannon Moyles, Daniel Oliver (Kelly) Moyles, Toby (Paige) Brown and Tanja Brown Weinard; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.. Per her wishes she was cremated. A visitation will be 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday June 30, at Anderson Funeral Home, 427 E. Main St., Hoopeston. A memorial service will follow the visitation at 1 p.m. Monday, June 30, at the funeral home with the Rev. James Batchelor officiating. Burial will be in Floral Hill Cemetery in Hoopeston.. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the TIGHAR Group-Amelia Earhart Project at www.tighar.org.

It turns out that you can't identify the grave site, at FindaGrave.com, by searching on Hoopeston, because Floral Hill Cemetery is listed there under Lovejoy Township, Illinois.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131990949/helen-brown

A township turns out to be a larger Illinois-specific geographic unit.  Google Maps show the cemetery to be north of Hoopeston about a mile, inside the township, with Hoopeston itself slightly outside the township (maybe why the FindaGrave listing is how it is).

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 on: May 23, 2024, 12:33:51 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Renaud Dudon
I would be interested to know what it says about the cooling system, especially if there is reference to a "nurse tank".

D'accord Ric, i will see if i could find some free time this week end to find this kind of informations if mentioned !  :D

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 on: May 22, 2024, 02:55:54 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Ric Gillespie
From memory, it seems to me that the manual only recommends the position of a possible feeder.

The feeder has to be on top of the engine and the filler port for the water reservoir has to be at the highest point, which is where we see it in the photos.

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 on: May 22, 2024, 02:33:19 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Renaud Dudon
I think you're absolutely right. The E2b engine was fitted on a very large number of aircraft, so it seems logical that each manufacturer had to adapt its accessories.

The Grand Raid PL8 undoubtedly needed an additional water supply, which required some adaptation by the Levasseur workshops. And you're right that this builder was more of a craftsman than an assembly-line manufacturer. That's why it's so difficult to obtain standard data for this aircraft builder. For an example, you may have read my topic on the PL8's alferium propeller...

From memory, it seems to me that the manual only recommends the position of a possible feeder.

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 on: May 22, 2024, 01:42:38 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Ric Gillespie
That fits to me. Il will tranlate only the pages that refer to the cooling system and apparatus. I recall that there was a reference to a water feeding item somewhere but from my remembrance, it was quite brief...  ::)

Yeah, my impression is that the shape and dimensions of the water reservoir or "nurse tank" was left up to the manufacturer of the particular aircraft that would use the engine. The PL-8 was purpose-built to be a very long-range aircraft so the amount of all the consumables required  (gasoline, oil and water) would be much greater than for other types.

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 on: May 22, 2024, 01:35:08 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Renaud Dudon
That fits to me. Il will tranlate only the pages that refer to the cooling system and apparatus. I recall that there was a reference to a water feeding item somewhere but from my remembrance, it was quite brief...  ::)

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 on: May 22, 2024, 01:22:04 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Ric Gillespie
I can translate it for you, of course, and with pleasure. It will take me quite some time though.

I'll do it as I go along, if that's okay for you ?  ;)

That's a lot of work.  I'm not sure we need the whole thing, but I would be interested to know what it says about the cooling system, especially if there is reference to a "nurse tank".

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 on: May 22, 2024, 01:06:18 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Renaud Dudon
Good evening Ric. Wilco. I can translate it for you, of course, and with pleasure. It will take me quite some time though.

I'll do it as I go along, if that's okay for you ?  ;)

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 on: May 22, 2024, 08:45:06 AM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Ric Gillespie
Renaud, we received the pdfs of manuals for the Lorraine Dietrich 12eb engine.  Thank you.
Incredibly, they are printed in handwritten cursive (in French, naturellement).  Impossible to copy-paste into Google-translate.

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 on: May 19, 2024, 11:37:39 AM 
Started by Renaud Dudon - Last post by Jeff Lange
That is one big and nasty looking piece of metal to be sitting behind! Those pilots of that era had a lot of courage!

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