John Lynch wrote:

Hi Paul,
Here are some pics of the Nemesis NXT rollout at

Mojave

today.

Regards,
John

Now all we need is a turbo 3 rotor in one of these.

Paul Lamar

Wow that plane is beautiful.  The landing gear is great

also.

Elegant.

How

much does this plane weigh gross?

Doug

Don't know but since it is all carbon fiber my guess is

under

1000

pounds

empty

and and 1500 pounds gross. If you need a kit  you better

get your

order in

now

as no doubt the price will go way up as they start to

dominate the

Sportsman

class at Reno as they dominated the O-200 Formula 1 class

for the

last

ten

years.

They hope to race it a Reno this year with the special

dual turbo

Lycoming

built for them. Here are some pictures of the buck making

process

that

occurred

across the taxi way from my hangar. Jon Sharp the

engineer/designer

works

for

the Lockheed Skunk works and as access to everything from

wind

tunnels

to

the

largest super computers running 3D CFD.

Paul Lamar

Paul,
That's interesting, they make the fuselage with L and R

halves

rather

than

conventual top and bottom half - probably easier to

incorporate the

vertical

stabilizer, for kit manufacture.
George (down under)

Actually the vertical split has been more common in the

composite kits

()Pulsar, Glassair, Lancair etc the KIS with the horiz split

makes the

assy process less painful, but does compromise some of the

things

you would like to put in the fuselage shape,

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

You just got done telling me induced drag (HP) did not matter at

Reno.

I am guessing he will be twenty MPH faster than the Lancair.
Assuming of course they don't have engine problems. Jon Sharp

knows

exactly what he is doing.

Paul Lamar

Paul - Induced drag is only part of the total drag picture (HP) and

it

becomes almost insignificant at Reno speeds and wing loadings.
Form drag which is a function of frontal and surface area, and
parasitic inputs is the primary. The Lancair is bigger, but still

very

clean,
and those guys have been fine tuning the race for more than two
years. I too am very impressed with Jon, and he may well
qualify perhaps 10 mph faster, but I would bet even money
that he will be beaten by one of the Lancairs THIS year.
If you can get 900hp in the Lancair I think it would have
the NXT by about 15mph - If you can handle the cooling
drag - Vance

I don't see how you come up with those numbers. The Nem Next is a much
smaller airplane with less surface and frontal area. I also would not
be surprised if it did not also have a lower form drag C sub d. I am

sure

Jon tweaked it in a wind tunnel some place. I will also
bet it is a couple of hundred pounds lighter than a Lancair IV.
The Lancair Legacy may be another matter.

True it is a new airplane and that may be its down fall this year.

Paul Lamar

How about the Lancair Sentry.

Mark S.

I think you're right Paul, we have a Sentry in town here and it is a BIG
airplane. The NXT looks tiny in comparison.

John

 
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