> > Hopefully the internet will not macerated this table quite so bad.

 > Damn Steve Jobs and his pansy GUI fonts. We did not have these
 > troubles back in the old DOS days of strictly ASCII characters :)

Bryan wrote:

 Paul , when you have flown that mooney(s) did the extendable intake
 air scoop make much differerence ?  Its one idea that  don't seem to
 have been mooted in connection with the intake plumbing. Or have
 things moved on from this with dynamic plenum chambers & intake
 tuning & the like being more significant ?
 >
 FWIW I always wonderd  why  video cards dont come with EEPROM space in
 which to write font files  - TT or whatever - that way , faster boot
 up & faster application start.  I now  recomend Abiword for
 wordprocessing likewise , though you have to install the spellcheck
 separately.

 Fly Good - Bryan

Yes! It was worth a couple of inches of manifold pressure to by pass
the intake air filter.

Speaking of the air scoop. A funny thing happened to me when I was
flying the Mooney. There is an extendable air scoop on the cockpit
roof that ventilates the interior. I was flying along minding my own
business when the control cable controlling the scoop door broke.
The door on the scoop did a 110 degree flip and rotated into the
top of the fuselage with a real load BANG!. I thought I was flying over
a military restricted airspace and I had been hit by a SAM! :)

Paul Lamar

I worry about this happening  with the rad louvers.  If the control
broke, they would slam shut.  Jerry
--

They will never really close all the way. The pressure coming
into the rad will be transferred to the outlet side of the rad 
and thence to the tops of the cowl flaps. They will take up a 
position that balances the pressure on their tops & bottoms. Might not
cool as well as it should but you could throttle back
and find an airport.

In the case of the Mooney the vent door was slanted forward and it
had to rotate well over 90 degrees to hit the top of the cabin.

Paul Lamar
 
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