Ed Anderson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 475
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 Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject: Was First Start of my rotary |
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Ah, Bob, I was going to let Frank continue with his incorrect impressions about rotary engines.
I guess I shouldn't tell him a rotary powered RV-4 won its class in the Sun & Fun 100 2003 beating all in the class with an official average speed of 217.5 mph! Not bad for a fixed-pitch wood prop, a car muffler hanging underneath (need I say a car engine under the cowl{:>)) and a non too clean airframe. Oh, yes, no cooling problems. I suspect that is the real reason Sun & Fun cancel the air races{:>).
Also, if you don't tell my 400 hour rotary powered RV-6A it has a cooling problem, maybe it won't know.
Just for the record, We have rotaries flying in RV-3, RV-4,RV-6,Rv-6A, Rv-7, Rv-8s and a couple currently in the works rotary powered RV-10 projects ( using the 3 rotor engine). Rotary's in other tractor installations as well as pusher installations are coming on board. We have a couple of "standard" cooling configurations that have stood the test of time for the rotary powered tractor installations and the Canard folks are also developing successful cooling configurations for the pushers.
Ooops, this is the Aeroelectric -list, sorry, Bob
Ed.
Ed Anderson
Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
eanderson(at)carolina.rr.com (eanderson(at)carolina.rr.com)
http://members.cox.net/rogersda/rotary/configs.htm#N494BW
http://www.dmack.net/mazda/index.html
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Matthews, NC
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