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Fred wrote:

Nicely done.  Outboard from spinner so as not to ingest the boundary layer
flow from the spinner and the worst of the wakes from the blunt prop shank,
and out where the velocity is higher behind the prop.  Round holes make for
good diffusers since corners make for thicker boundary layers that lead to
earlier flow separation, and it tries to be as pointy as feasible.  Clearly
he "gets it."  Note similarity to Lopresti cowl designs.

Fred Moreno

Actually  it was the University of Missipppi  that came up with the
round inlet orginally (like a lot of other advances in general aviation) 
as I recall. Roy probably just read the tech results and started 
applying them to everything in sight :-)

Paul Lamar
 
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