Shannon,
I'm located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, Canada. I have an old series 2 lazair which I had over 600 hours of flying on it. When it came time for recovering I made new ribs so that in between the original ribs so that I could use dacron and I rib stitched the fabric on the wing. It turned out great. I also reinforced the trailing edge to take the stress of the shrinking process of the fabric. When my engines were starting to give me a little bit of trouble, I tore them down and then found out that there were slight cracks in the cranks. The previous owner had flipped it twice onto it's nose, breaking the props and I made a mistake of lending my aircraft to a hanglider friend of mine who told me that he could handle it but as it turned out, he flipped it also. I parted out the parts after finding out about these cracks and put away the lazair up in my garage. I had just bought a new two place airplane to fly around 13 years ago. I guess I'm starting to miss flying and soaring and would consider putting it back together. I'm including a couple pictures. I was under the impression that you could install a 277 rotax engine in place of the other two engines and not have to worry about the CG issue.
Paul
P.S. I don't have the time tonight but I was reading the other gentleman's request about soaring the lazair but I have many hours of non-powered flight and it's been a real blast. Longest flight was over an hour, got the thermal at 700 feet, shut engines off at air field, and continued to ride the thermal until I reached cloud base at about 5000 feet. Played there for an hour and then had to work back against the wind back to the airfield which was maybe was approximately 4-5 miles away. Once I made it to the airfield, I was still about 2000 feet above and actually had do wingovers to get down since there seemed to be so much uprising air. It sounds crazy but what a blast and it's true.