BTW Mark do you have, or can you borrow, a video camera?
I would love to have a video of your 3 rotor powered Lancair ES
taking off and or a high speed pass down the runway.
Are you going to make Sun N Fun this year?
Perhaps we can do something at an outlying Fl airport.
I'll be going to Wachula Bensen days a few days before
Sun n Fun. You could meet me there.
--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Paul,
I doubt that I'll be at this year's SNF due to work related issues. I
was planning on attending the SWRFI, but I hear that the EAA has pulled
out due to recent litigation. I need to finish flying off the test
period and get some other small issues corrected. The biggest unknown
at this point is the exhaust system. The HushPower II doesn't look like
it is up to the job, but I don't have an anternative at this time. Got
any leads on some surplus Inconel tubing I can use to make a tangential
muffler?
I have a camera that can take movies. I'll try to get something that
you can use. I attended a local BBQ fly-in here in TX where there was a
professional photographer taking pictures of the attendees. As a
result, she has taken the only picture of 208TX in flight that I know
of. See
http://futurshox.net/aeroview.php?level=image&id=6309
It is
copyrighted, so the url is the best I can do for now. (If you look real
close, you'll see a huge grin on the pilot's face.) I'll see what I can
do to get some video.
Mark
Check out Boeing and Pratt & Whitney surplus. They had Inconel
at one time. Brian Trubee goes to Boeing Surplus from time
to time as I recall. You can always go up on the wall thickness.
304 SS will work fine at .090 thick. A bit heavy but will work
fine until something better comes along.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Boeing Surplus is no more. I
don't know of anyplace that sells inconel, I've heard that there's one
place out in Kent, Wa that sells inconel, you can probably find it on
the internet.
Brian Trubee
Specialty Metals in Kent Washington has inconel, I think. They have a
web site, but it does not list their inconel.
Brian Trubee
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