Archie Frangoudis wrote:

Question for anyone:
This may be premature, but should be addressed if it has not been done.
If I build one of these for my next aircraft, it will have to handle
aerobatics.
A Christen inverted oil system should be easy enough to adapt, has anyone
done anything different?

In a steep 360deg. turn, it appears that the oil may be away from the pickup
momentarily.
In racing we use baffles, trap doors, and swinging pickups to insure oil
availability
during moments of g-force and acceleration/deceleration.

My thoughts are leaning in this direction. These should be pluses. I would
like commentary on  any negative aspects.

Archie

I would use a full dry sump system with an aircraft standard flop tube
pick up in the dry sump oil tank. See the 900 HP turbo three rotor
on the web site for an example of a dry sump system. That one is gear
driven but a cog belt drive would work as well.

Cost is the downside of course.

Paul Lamar
 
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