Why do you need the NXT - if you can truly put 900 hp in
a Lancair 4P you would wax him big time - no way does
he have less than half the flat plate drag of the lancair. The game
is almost pure horsepower over flat plate drag, and the bigger
heavier 4P would have an easier time in traffic,
C'mon! lets put up the rotary money and go! - Vance
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Now you've done it Vance!!!!!!!!!......
You've managed to unleash my thoughts on this very subject which I've
harbored for a lots of years on ACRE....so here goes!!!!
I'm sick and tired of periodically hearing the same old chant, over and
over again, on how the SUPERIOR 1200 hp 20B can easily beat the pants of
anything
flying today at Reno, Blah, Blah, Blah and ETC, ETC, ETC........Followed
by.......loads of IFs up my ying-yat......And finally ending with the same
old
statement......."Too bad they won't allow Rotaries to participate at the
Reno Air Races".......Then everybody picks up their tarnished MARBLES and
goes home
muttering......."Even IF they did allow it, THEY would eventually
handicap or outlaw Rotaries after we beat the shxx out of those N-F-G piston
grenades"....
The latest and most legitimate one brought up by Vance is......."Those
big Heavy HP iron's wake, will blow any Light weight A/C we could come up
with, clear
out of the sky regardless of HP employed.
Now here's my take on the whole blooming mess:!!!!!!!
As a rule, shxx happens but it's always caused by THEY, the selfish,
egoistical, self centered, narrow minded and insecure Shxxheads out there
that fight to
keep their turf/domain(s) from being changed, (Sort of like the Rooster
in the Hen house).......Experience has taught me this well, and it can be
turned
around IF, you're a "Doer" ;-)
If you guys are genuinly serious about doing something instead of
continuing doing NOTHING, WE could pool in our resources both technically
and monetarily and
get them to take notice by beating the pants off the Reno WINNERS per,
or in whatever Class we choose!!!!........HOW????,.......By very simply
designing and
building an A/C powered by a Rotary for the sole purpose of beating that
years Reno's FASTEST bird's time!!!!......WHERE????........AT an annual
gathering on
an AIRPORT of our choosing. SANCTIONED by WHOM????.......Nobody but US
at first, BUT I'll personally guarantee that the WORD will get around, and
the Reno
clicks will take notice (Their Competitive Ego will make them), but more
importantly, the regular Joes, fliers, builders etc out there will also be
taking the
Rotary much more seriously.
Can this really be pulled off????
Yep!!!!!.......Right of the Bat and aside from personal donations by us,
I can easily see the people that are doing business with the Rotary making
Component,
Technical as well as Monetary donations for the cause and advertizing
spot on the actual A/C......Ransacking the Private Business
sector......Placing a modest
fee for the NO-charge ACRE Newsletter service (That's right Paul,
nothing legal or wrong with this, so SHUT-UP or I'll have my BIGGER than
your Buddy Bulent,
feed you to the Aligators in his back yard).
I think I've made my point at a chance of a lifetime opportunity and
taken away all the EXCUSES.......So in conclussion I say "Either we SHxx or
get off the
POT" and stop WHINING!!!!!!!
Fire away guys,
Butch
The only problem with this message is it won't go over in Zanzibar :)
I figure all we need is $200,000. I'll donate $10,000 and my 20B core.
any other takers?
Paul Lamar
The parallel non Reno race is a good call. I would certainly be willing
to provide engineering input tho the Reno judges that the three rotor
does not exceed the allowable displacement - even using the most
unfavorable analysis. and tnat it is not some ,magic turbine machine
that makes Hp out of thin air. The problem with Reno is that it
is a good old boys club of the first order, and you run if they
like you . Rubbing a speed record sanctioned somewhere else
is not quite as good - but they would have trouble ignoring
it. By the way - isn't someone already putting a 3 rotor
in a Lancair? - Vance
Tom Parkes but apparently he does not have $200,000 to spend on a Reno
like race. Also it is a Lancair ES non retractable let alone a IV or a Legacy.
Maybe we could take up a collection and buy Tom a good prop provided
he agreed to race it in the Sun 100 :) I am sure he would not go 400 MPH
but 250 would be impressive for a fixed gear airplane.
BTW My rich potential patron is already in the aircraft biz.
If we organized a parallel race part of the sponsor money could be spent
on full size ads in several aviation publications challenging anybody to
race against us with a piston engine. That should optimize the sponsor's
publicity for the money spent. We better be darn sure we are ready to
run and win with extensive testing in secret.
I also think if we went 400 MPH in the Sun 100 they would be impressed.
Paul Lamar
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