Some time ago there was an attempt to get some rotor heads together
at
Copper State. This was coming along nicely until Paul decided to go
to
some auto thing. That seemed to be the end of the plans making.
(That's
allright Paul, we love you anyway!)

I would like to meet some of the rotor heads that contribute to the
ACRE
newsletter. It is always nice to be able to be able to link a name
with
a face and a person, even if I can only remember for 10 seconds. :)

As I recall, Saturday noon seems to be the time that fit into most
people's schedules. The question is where? And how do we identify
each
other? For some of the veteran rotor heads this won't be a problem,
but
for us newbees it is.

I will be wearing a home made rotor badge, as will my two grandsons
(I
hope).

We will be leaving CO Wed the 25th at oh dark thirty, so there isn't
a
whole lot of time to agree on a meeting place. I will check my email
before we leave in case someone has a suggestion on where to meet.

If you see an old guy that is only slightly overweight :) with a
home
made rotor badge please grab him and tell him where the meet (if
any)
is. If all else fails maybe we can arrange something on the fly.

Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage

Hi Doc,

I'm at Paul's beach house now and will be flying Puddle Jumper
(C-150)
over that way tomorrow.  At 12:00 noon lets meet at the entrance
ticket
booth and then get some lunch.

Cheers


Doug Fir

Sorry we missed you. We didn't have access to the internet.

The original posted time was 11:30. The suggested place the FBO. We
were there from 10:40 till 11:45. One rotor head we had met earlier
showed up.

Darn! Next year...

Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage

Doc,


Darn it yes.  I must have just missed you.  I probably sat down next to
you in the FBO before I wandered down to the front gate.  I didn't see
anyone having lunch or walking around with rotor hats either.  I ended
up spending most of the day with the creator of a fantastic SeaWind that
had been heavily modified and gain enough information to save me months
of work and a lot of frustration.  My C-150 got the award for the worst
paint job in the show.  Not really but only because I didn't put a
"judge me" sign on it.  Well it runs great and that is what counts the
most.


I did find out that my flight line neighbor was a flight engineer on the
turbo compounded Connies and boy did he have a mouthfull to tell me
about those engines.  I believe he said the blow down turbine blades
were made of tungsten and that the engines often caught fire.  He said
the turbine compound helped at altitude but it was the huge
turbo-chargers with the 52inches of boost at take-off which personally
tickled him.

My impression was the turbo compounding system as designed for the
Connies was not very reliable.  He mentioned on one four city domestic
freight run they once lost and replaced an engine on each journey leg.

The later larger four row radials engines didn't use the turbo-compound
concept.

Not to worry.  We have a much better choice of alloys with off the shelf
components, and O yeah,  no exhaust valves to deal with.


Doug Fir
Flying around USA at the speed of time.

The R-3350 did not have turbo chargers and the blades
were not tungsten :) It did have centrifugal superchargers.

BTW Your sweater is going out to Flagstaff today.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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