Mark Steitle wrote:

I normally lurk in the background and soak up the great information on the rotary, which I am totally sold on.  Someday soon I hope to join those building a plane of my own.  Just need to take a deep breath and jump on in.

Anyway, the reason I am posting this is to get an opinion of the cooling inlet design on Lancair's new Legacy 2000, picture attached.  The thing that caught my eye was the "eyebrows" over the small round cowl inlets.  Is this just for looks, engine clearance, aerodynamics, or what?  Looks to me like it is good for added turbulence and increased parasite drag.  They claim 289mph at 18,000 and 310mph at 25,000.

What does the group think?

While I'm here, has anyone tried to see if the disconnected oil injection ports could be used as an emergency source for fuel in case of a efi failure?  I put a guage on my engine while running and it pulls a real good vacuum.  Is this workable for redundancy purposes?

Mark Steitle

Did you see this airplane? I did not notice those when I saw
it a Copper State.  Is it a shadow from the prop? Makes no sense
to me.

Paul Lamar

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