Looking forward to it!!

You know anything new about Mistral Engines?
They are very quiet at now. On their website is nothing moving either.....

Thomas J.

David Arbogast wrote:

didn't Paul write something negative about Mistral in the news letter???
-dave

No Dave. I don't think I did but sometimes people get offended at what appears
to me to be an innocuous statement :)

As a matter of fact I just got back from Florida and I spoke with Peter Pierpoint at
Embray Riddle U on Wednesday morning about the ongoing flight testing of the rotary.
He told me the development lab in Switzerland was seeing 170 HP from the engine
burning heavy fuel. He also said they were working on a turbo tachometer using 
a Hall effect sensor to get a handle of the turbo failure problem. 
Peter said the next step is take the airplane up to 20,000 feet to check
the drive system  vibration characteristic for Hartzel propellors.
They failed one turbo but it was repaired for $660. They also bought a T4 turbo
from Kelly Air and Space formerly known as Turbonetics.

BTW Peter also did the installation and development work on the Renault AC 
diesel at the same facility.

Paul Lamar
 
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