snips...

I plan to put the wheel paints on and do some more testing this
week. I
also need to build a spinner and reduce the size if the augmentation
tube since I
seem to have more cooling than I need.

Charlie

Charlie is also building a rotary powered airplane. This one is a soob I
think.
It has one of Tracy Crook's fuel injection computers. I am glad it is
working
so Tracy can get back to building re-drives and computers for us :-).
Did you make money on this project Tracy? :-)

Paul Lamar

 

Tracy Crook wrote:

Yes!  Current profit and loss calculations on the EJ-22 version of EC2
project show that I've made about 17 cents an hour  :-)   I expect to make
about the same on the Chevy V8 version I'm working on now.  I haven't
changed my opinion of what the best engine is for aircraft use is but these
builders (Charlie Airesman on the Sube and Dave Weston on the V8) convinced
me they know what they are doing and know what it takes to be succesful with
these engines.  Both of these projects are direct drive (no reduction) but
properly isolate the prop from the crankshaft.

Tracy Crook
rws@altavista.net
www.rotaryaviation.com

Read my recent article on Klauses dropped valve. Reiner Hoffman also dropped a
valve on his soob and crashed. So far most of the Chevs have failed for 
other reasons. The power to weight ratio must be horrible on a direct
drive Chev. There was a guy out here in CA flying a direct drive Ford
V8 in a Longez for awhile. No prop isolation. In fact it had a crank 
extension of all things. Scary! Got whipped real bad on a regular basis 
in the local AC races.
 
Paul Lamar
 
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