Subject: KR Pull test
From: ACRE NL
Date: 8/19/2001, 6:52 PM


        FYI, Virg


Hi Rene,
Just wondering if the guys over Kr-net do any pull test and compare
numbers
with each other to kind of establish a workable prop/h.p. range? Last
week
i
saw a guy testing is 601 with a couple of pulleys, a rope and an oil
cylinder
with a pressure gage attached to it. He tied one pulley on the back of
his
machine, the other to a secure tiedown point and he floored it. He got
a
reading of 350 lbs. He told me that the contraption was passed down
from
owner
to owner in the region so as to build a data base for comparison from
witch
they could draw educated guess about their set up.Any ideas???


The danger in  putting too much emphasis on static thrust is
you can under pitch your prop and when it comes time to fly the HP
will not be there. Happened to a guy down in Phoenix about
a year ago.

Paul Lamar


 
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