Lonnie Wood wrote:

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Dave Stanfield wrote:

Is anyone aware of any rotary powered Christavia Mk4's?


Dave Stanfield
Kansas City

Hey Dave,

I pulled out an old packet of info from Atkins Aviation. In it is a picture
and a short writeup of A Cristavia MK4 with a rotary. It is owned by
Andy Venable of Ogden Utah. Keep in mind this is a 1995 newsletter.
He did the installation and conversion himself but was not satisfied with
the performance so he took it to Dave Atkins for help. The article was not
clear on what was done to improve it. It promised in the next issue an
update.

Does anybody have the next issue?

As far as the cooling in the aft fuselage, if your tubing and elevator controls
are arranged like they are on my Sportsman it looks like it would take alot of
modifications, though not impossible.

Lonnie
rwood@iceinternet.com

Lonnie, can you take some pictures of your Sportsman elevator control
configuration and send them to me? I am working up a bunch of 
suggestions for control modifications for different types of airplanes 
as I feel the aft P51 type cooling duct is essential. I just took
a bunch of pictures of the Lancair which I will publish in a few
days. 

If you don't plan ahead for a proper cooling setup it could
take you years of messing around to get it to work. 
Just ask Neil and Ed Anderson. You must allow the duct to expand
and converge at the proper rate. That takes a relatively long duct.
The only good place for it is in the aft fuselage.

Paul Lamar
 
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