Subject: Bruce Bohannon's Records
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 7/13/2007, 4:18 PM
To: AARotary Engine



Can we beat Bruce's records with rotary power?

http://www.pilotjournal.com/content/2003/septoct/tiger.html

I think it would be fun to try.  Would we qualify as actually beating him?


Matt-

Allan Tolle beat him in the Sun n Fun time to climb back about
1997 or there abouts flying his Everett Hatch p-port rotary powered
RV3 I think. Allan, like Bruce, was using nitrous oxide and a climb
prop. As I recall Allan climbed to 3000 feet from a dead stop on the
runway to 3000 feet in less than a minute. Everything was entered in
this contest including jets. Bruce held the record for years until
Allan came along. The Everett Hatch internal spur gear PSRU he was using
failed later in the Sun N Fun 100 mile xcountry race.
-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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